Welcome to this two-part mini series on cult psychology. I'm really excited about this topic. I've been doing a lot of research on it because there's so much that we can learn from cults, so many broader lessons. So we're going to have to first start by talking about the foundation.

What are cults and how do they work?

Most people don't know what cults are and how they really work.

So that's what we'll be doing today in part one.

And then in part two, we'll be looking at the broader applications.

We're going to zoom out, take a big picture look at the

epistemic lessons that we're going to learn from cults and how that's

visible everywhere in society. And this is where it's going to be really practical

and this is where the whole payoff of this

mini-series is going to be so you want to make sure that you stick around for

part two. In part two we'll be looking at for example how we see cult-like

behavior in business, in marketing, in politics, in religion, even in science, in

universities, in your family, in your personal life, in your relationships, so it's going

to get very, very very practical so if you are under the

impression that oh well Leo I'm too smart to get suckered into a cult and

there is no lessons there for me to learn for my self-improvement.

I'm just an ordinary person.

I don't care about joining a cult.

Well, watch out.

First of all, many of you actually are foolish enough to get suckered into cults because these cults are extremely

deceptive and they will succor you in.

So we want to be able to inoculate you against that.

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