776: Kevin Dutton | The Wisdom of Psychopaths Part One
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Dutton (@therealdrkev) is a psychologist and author known for his research on the psychology of evil and the science of charisma. His latest book is The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success. [This is part one of a two-part episode. Keep an eye out for part two later this week!]
What We Discuss with Kevin Dutton:- How having a con artist father who never lost his cool sparked Kevin's interest in understanding the mindset of the psychopath.
- What Kevin means when he says that psychopaths understand the "words but not the music" of emotion.
- Contrary to popular belief, psychopaths aren't necessarily violent. They could be a surgeon or a killer, a firefighter or an arsonist. (Or even a professor or an ax murderer.)
- Why psychopaths are often excellent at persuasion and identifying weakness in others.
- What percentage of the population exhibits psychopathy, and how psychopaths can actually be useful for society.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.0 | I always remember a very bad psychopath-away interview |
| 0:06.0 | once who had killed a number of people. |
| 0:09.0 | And each said, you know, you don't need to have |
| 0:12.0 | color vision to see how a traffic light works. |
| 0:15.0 | You just need to know which bits are lit up. |
| 0:18.0 | And that's pretty chilling, but that's actually |
| 0:21.0 | a very accurate portrayal of how people who are very |
| 0:25.0 | high on the psychopath expect from see the world |
| 0:28.0 | and see other people. They don't see the color of the emotion. |
| 0:31.0 | They just see which bits are lit up. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:39.0 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, |
| 0:42.0 | secrets and skills of the world's most fascinating people. |
| 0:44.0 | We have in-depth conversations with scientists, |
| 0:46.0 | entrepreneurs, spies and psychologists, |
| 0:49.0 | even the occasional Fortune 500 CEO, |
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| 0:57.0 | and each episode turns our guests wisdom into practical advice |
| 1:00.0 | that you can use to build a deeper understanding |
| 1:02.0 | of how the world works and become a better thinker. |
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