762 - Steven Pinker (Part 1): Are you Rational or Irrational?

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In 2020, things have been challenging! There are constant arguments on social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and all the social sites that you can find on the internet! In this Part 1 (of 2) of the episode, I have one of my favorite writers, and I have read countless of his book, multiple times, Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author, on to talk about this new book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. We talked about what is his definition of Rational, and to see if one is rational or irrational? Listen to this Part 1 out of 2, and Part 2 will come out the same day too! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.1	You know what?
0:17.1	It really pays to understand what is rational behavior.
0:21.7	Everyone assumes, oh, I'm the rational one and everyone else is irrational.
0:26.0	Well, we're all kind of irrational almost all the time and there's reasons for that because
0:32.4	our brain needs shortcuts occasionally so we could think faster and make decisions.
0:38.0	But that means we sacrifice a little bit of rationality and particularly this year where
0:43.0	it's like everyone is arguing about everything.
0:46.0	There's no teams.
0:48.4	Rational think means you're an individual and you compile wisdom in your life.
0:54.4	You use that wisdom and plus your knowledge which are different to make decisions.
0:59.4	So I'm really happy to have Stephen Pinker, one of my favorite writers come on the
1:04.1	podcast and talk about his new book, Rationality.
1:07.7	Here we go.
1:15.7	The better angels of our nature is one of my all time favorite books and it's such an
1:19.9	important book that people need to read.
1:22.2	If I wanted to, I could use that book in an argument at least once a day because it's
1:28.2	such an important topic.
1:29.2	The fact that in general against what people think commonly, violence as a species has
1:35.1	gone down, you know, century after century.
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