4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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My guest today is Buster Benson, an entrepreneur and a former product leader at Amazon, Twitter, Slack, and Patreon. He’s now CEO of 750words.com and writes for Medium.
The topic is his book Why Are We Yelling?
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
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0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Coval. |
0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
0:33.3 | I am not going to pretend that I'm not guilty. |
0:37.2 | Do I sometimes get in arguments with idiots and keep it going longer than it should? |
0:45.0 | Yeah, I'm guilty of that. |
0:47.4 | Look, I was guilty right there of just calling them idiots. |
0:50.1 | That's not very nice of me either. |
0:53.1 | So one of those big questions that we all must face in the modern age, |
0:57.8 | why are we yelling? |
1:00.1 | And is there an art to productive disagreement? |
1:04.4 | For example, have you ever just walked away from an argument and suddenly thought of all |
1:08.8 | the brilliant things you wish you'd said? |
1:12.6 | Of course, we do it all the time. |
1:21.5 | My guest today brings a new framework to try and get us around just constant bickering and constant conflict. |
1:24.0 | I mean, I think deep down, unless you happen to be a serial killer or the next Hitler, deep down, most people are good people. |
1:32.6 | They want the same things. |
1:35.0 | But we all come with bias. |
1:37.3 | We all come with our preconceived ideas of how things work, of how people work, and having a solution, or at least an understanding to find |
1:47.4 | common ground. Hell, that's a damn good idea. My guest today, Buster Benson, has gone down this |
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