Best Of: Inside the Psychology of Cults with Bob Gower

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In classic cult psychology or cult literature, there’s really two characteristics to a cult. First is that it’s ideologically intense and of course that can describe a lot of organizations. Everything from say something like the Landmark forum to the United States of America. We have an ideology that sits behind the organization. In order to be a part of the US government you have to adopt a certain kind of ideology. There’s this idea that we have an ideology. And cults for that reason pray on people like myself who really want to make the world a better place, want to change the world or feel dissatisfied in some way. There can be political cults. There are quite a few of those out there. There can be spiritual cults. There can be even commercial cults. Real estate is apparently a really common place right now where you find people who are learning how to flip houses and do all this stuff. And they began to develop these really intense ideology around how they approach the world and how they see the world. – Bob Gower

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0:00.0	In classic cult psychology or in cult literature there's really two characteristics to a cult.
0:06.1	The first is that it's ideologically intense and of course that can describe a lot of different organizations,
0:12.0	everything from potentially like say something like
0:14.4	the Landmark Forum to I don't know the United States of America right you know like
0:19.3	we have an ideology that sits behind the organization and so in order to like be a part of
0:25.0	the US government you probably have to adopt a certain kind of ideology of course I
0:29.3	think you know maybe Donald Trump is is testing that theory at least some edges of it right now in terms
0:34.9	of some foundational Democratic principles but there's this idea that we have an
0:38.8	ideology and it really encults for that reason actually prey upon people who like myself really want to make the world a better place want to change the world or feel dissatisfied in some way and are on our idealistic right and. And so cults can generally, they can be,
0:55.2	there can be political cults.
0:56.4	There are quite a few of those out there.
0:58.8	There can be spiritual cults.
1:02.1	There can be even commercial cults. Real estate is a really
1:06.6	commonplace apparently right now where you find people you know who are learning
1:09.8	how to flip houses and do all this stuff right and they they begin to develop this
1:13.7	like really really intense ideology around how they approach the world and
1:17.4	how they see the world.
1:20.3	I'm Sreeney Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window
1:27.2	into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started
1:31.2	movements, built driving businesses, written best selling books, and created
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