Are Babies Racist? Is Empathy Bad for Society? And More with Dr. Paul Bloom
The Science of Success
Matt Bodnar
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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In this episode we start with a dive into evolutionary psychology and how biases have been programmed into you by millions of years of evolution, look at why our guest condemns the concept of Empathy, how the science demonstrates that empathy has no correlation with doing good in the world, how empathy creates disastrous outcomes, and more with our guest Dr. Paul Bloom
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Science of Success with your host, Matt Bodner. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to the science of success. I'm your host, Matt Bodner. I'm an entrepreneur and investor |
| 0:16.9 | in Nashville, Tennessee, and I'm obsessed with the mindset of success and the psychology |
| 0:21.6 | of performance. I've read hundreds of books, conducted countless hours of research and study, |
| 0:26.6 | and I'm going to take you on a journey into the human mind and what makes peak performers tick, |
| 0:31.7 | with a focus on always having our discussions rooted in psychological research and scientific fact, |
| 0:37.4 | not opinion. In this episode, |
| 0:39.4 | we start with a dive into evolutionary psychology and how biases have been programmed into |
| 0:44.0 | by millions of years of evolution. We look at why our guest condemns the concept of empathy, |
| 0:49.7 | how science demonstrates that empathy has no correlation with doing good in the world, |
| 0:53.9 | how empathy creates disastrous outcomes, and good in the world, how empathy |
| 0:54.6 | creates disastrous outcomes and more with our guest, Dr. Paul Bloom. The science of success |
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