696: How to Separate Truth from Bullsh*t for Smarter Decisions with John V. Petrocelli
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How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
John V. Petrocelli discusses the communicative perils of bullsh*t—and what you can do to stop it.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why BS is more damaging than you think
2) Three ways to sharpen your BS detector
3) Six clarifying questions to help you call out BS
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— ABOUT JOHN —
John V. Petrocelli is an experimental social psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University. His research examines the causes and consequences of bullshit and bullshitting in the way of better understanding and improving bullshit detection and disposal. He is the author of The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit. Petrocelli’s research contributions also include attitudes and persuasion and the intersections of counterfactual thinking with learning, memory and decision making. His research has appeared in the top journals of his field including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Petrocelli also serves as an Associate Editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
• John’s book: The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
• John’s Twitter: @JohnVPetro
• John’s academic profile: John V. Petrocelli
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt
• Book: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
• Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 696 with John Petrochelli, and I think |
| 0:24.6 | you're full of BS. |
| 0:26.2 | Well, Schneiki, we are censoring just to keep distribution as many countries as possible. |
| 0:31.6 | I know you're grown-ups, but that's what we're talking about. |
| 0:34.6 | Is we're talking about BS stuff that isn't lying per se, and yet is rather harmful? |
| 0:42.3 | How to detect it, and do better with it, and make all the wiser decisions for it. |
| 0:46.7 | We've got a master of the art, John Petrochelli joining us, and you'll learn one, why BS is |
| 0:52.8 | more damaging than you think. |
| 0:54.1 | Two, three ways to sharpen your BS detector, and three, six clarifying questions to help |
| 0:58.6 | you call out BS. |
| 0:59.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Allen's Be |
| 1:02.4 | Reference, do drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep696. |
| 1:08.0 | And here's John's story. |
| 1:09.0 | John V. Petrochelli is an experimental social psychologist and professor of psychology |
| 1:12.8 | at Wake Forest University. |
| 1:14.3 | His research examines the causes and consequences of BS and BS in the way of better understanding |
| 1:20.0 | and improving BS detection and disposal. |
| 1:22.7 | He's the author of the life-changing science of detecting BS and Petrochelli's research |
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