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The Art of Charm

641: Daniel Levitin | Weaponized Lies

The Art of Charm

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🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Levitin (@danlevitin) is a cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, musician, record producer, and author of Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era. "Your brain clings tenaciously to beliefs that it's held, even when the evidence has been found to be bogus or untrue." -Daniel Levitin The Cheat Sheet: The most important quality for anyone who wants to be an evidence-based, critical thinker. Why even society's smartest people fall victim to misinformation. The first step to making good decisions. How to dismantle bad arguments on the fly. Why we need to look beyond averages when making a case. And so much more... Full show notes at http://theartofcharm.com/641/ Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Avoid trips to the post office with Stamps.com -- The Art of Charm listeners get a postal scale and $55 of postage for free here! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! With pain-free invoicing, FreshBooks helps entrepreneurs and freelancers save time and avoid a lot of the stress that comes with running a small business. Try a month of unrestricted use for free here (no credit card required)! Enter ART OF CHARM in the How You Heard About Us section. Catch season two of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath on A&E! Free yourself from typing notes, reports, and documents by going with the transcriptionists we trust here at AoC: TranscriptionOutsourcing.net -- 99% or higher accuracy guaranteed! HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

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0:00.0

Year by year, the number of Nicholas Cage movies made correlates with the number of people who drown in swimming pools.

0:14.6

Welcome to the Art of Charm. I'm Jordan Harbinger and I'm here with producer Jason de Filippo.

0:19.4

On this episode we'll be talking with Daniel Levitton.

0:22.4

He's the author of Weaponized Lies, great title.

0:25.3

We're living in an age of information overload.

0:27.3

We're constantly bombarded by information.

0:29.1

It's getting harder and harder to tell what's true and what's not.

0:32.5

Misinformation, disinformation, irresponsible information.

0:36.3

We're going to try to help everyone make better decisions and to think more effectively about the information you encounter.

0:41.7

In your day-to-day life, today we'll explore critical thinking techniques involving experts,

0:46.5

pseudo experts, data charts, words and numbers,

0:48.9

and we'll learn some techniques to think more critically and dismantle arguments on the fly.

0:53.9

And last but not least, we'll find out why the average person only has one testicle and what that means for you.

0:59.5

So enjoy this episode with Daniel Levitton.

1:04.3

A lot of folks, when they think about these topics, they think,

1:07.1

yeah, you know what? Other people sure are dumb and they hit Miss Leta Lot.

1:12.4

But I looked at this newspaper article the other day and it said that half of all humans only have one testicle that was shocking.

1:20.3

We need to do something about that.

1:22.3

That's actually, of course, is almost true given that half the population has no testicles.

1:26.9

These kinds of things are not always so simple,

1:30.1

but I think that even people who are educated, smart,

1:34.5

and think that they think critically,

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