Hidden Motives for Why We Lie to Ourselves and Others with Robin Hanson, Author of The Elephant in the Brain • 272

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Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach

Mindfulness, Inspirational, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Consciousness, Religion & Spirituality, Spiritual Growth, Awakening, Mental Health

4.9 • 906 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

We will learn:

Why it is hard for us to think clearly about our nature and the explanations for our behavior.
The 4 strands of research that all led to the same conclusion: that we are strangers to ourselves.
How to better read signals to understand other people’s hidden motives.

No one wants to be called a liar, but what if I told you that you, and all of us, lie to each other and ourselves all the time?

We are basically political animals and schemers that are constantly looking out for number one without even knowing that we’re doing it. To better deceive others, we also deceive ourselves.

So that’s what we’re talking about today.

Our guest is Robin Hanson. He is an Associate Professor of Economics and received his Ph.D in 1997 in social sciences from Caltech. And he’s also the author of one of the top best sellers in the last decade, “The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mind Love, episode 272.
0:03.1	Today's episode is all about the hidden motives that cause us to lie to ourselves and others.
0:08.5	So I should first address the elephant in the room question of why you should learn about the elephant in the room.
0:15.2	It's about hidden motives that evolution has designed you not to notice and we're telling you about them so you might plausibly think well if
0:25.3	evolution designed you not to notice these things maybe you don't want to know maybe you're
0:30.8	better off not knowing and in fact that's not a crazy story.
0:35.0	One theory might be that you are a special person in terms of your role in society being
0:41.0	say a policymaker or a social scientist and you need more to understand
0:46.4	what's really going on. But another kind of reason might be that you're especially nerdy and
0:51.2	socially unskilled and when you just follow your intuitions it doesn't work very well and so
0:57.6	Consciously understanding these things may go better for you
1:14.4	Turn up your frequency for you. It's time to give your mind a little love with your host, Melissa Monte. If this is your first time giving your mind a little love, don't forget to hit the
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1:31.2	intention, the better you'll feel about yourself and your life.
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1:45.0	No one wants to be called a liar, but what have I told you that you and all of us lie to each other and ourselves all the time.
1:54.0	Before you argue with me, but Melissa, I pride myself on my honesty.
1:59.0	Well, that might be true, but here's the thing.
2:02.0	It's not a conscious process. That might be true, but here's the thing.
2:02.8	It's not a conscious process.
2:05.3	We've heard the expression,
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