How To Leverage The Psychology Of Power & Status - David Pinsof - #668

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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David Pinsof is a research scientist at UCLA, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity and an author. Humans want things. Then we tell ourselves stories about why we want those things. And these reasons are often very flattering, but almost exclusively bullshit. We do not understand our motivations, and this is part of our brain's design. So, given this limit on introspection, is it possible to ever truly understand ourselves? Expect to learn the difference between bullshitting and lying, why we can’t we admit that we want status, why human desires are so fickle and silly, how the modern world has hijacked our status games, why we find certain things interesting, why you actually don't want to be happy no matter how much you claim that you do and much more... Sponsors: Get 10% discount on all Gymshark’s products at https://bit.ly/sharkwisdom (use code: MW10) Get 10% discount on Marek Health’s comprehensive blood panels at https://marekhealth.com/modernwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM) Get 20% discount on Bubs Naturals at https://www.bubsnaturals.com/ (use code MODERNWISDOM) Timestamps: (00:00) Why is Everything Bullshit? (06:40) How to Properly Absorb Evolutionary Psychology (11:07) The Randomness of Status Games (15:21) How Social Media Has Impacted Status Games (18:00) How to Gain Status While Hiding Status Signalling (25:44) What If I’m Just Being Altruistic? (30:11) What People Misunderstand About Our Desires (35:14) Our Need to Out-Compete Our Elders (43:08) Do People Really Want to Be Happy? (52:06) Finding a Life Purpose Beyond Status-Seeking (1:01:59) Why We Find Certain Things Interesting (1:12:09) Where to Find David Extra Stuff: Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to the show.
0:03.1	My guest today is David Pinsoff, he's a professor of psychology at UCLA co-creator of
0:08.1	Cards Against Humanity and an author.
0:11.6	Humans want things, then we tell ourselves stories about why we want those things, and these
0:17.0	reasons are often very flattering, but almost exclusively bullshit.
0:21.4	We do not understand our motivations, and this is part of our brain's design, so given
0:26.7	this limit on introspection, is it possible to ever truly understand ourselves?
0:31.6	Expect to learn the difference between bullshitting and lying, why we can't admit that we
0:35.9	actually want status, why human desires are so fickle and silly, how the modern world
0:40.6	has hijacked our status games, why we find certain things interesting, why you actually
0:45.0	don't want to be happy, no matter how much you claim that you do.
0:49.2	And much more.
0:51.0	We love the insight here, some very counter-intuitive, difficult to listen to, laws and insights
0:58.2	about human nature.
0:59.2	David is great, I saw him give a presentation in Palm Springs a couple of months ago,
1:03.7	and I've been looking forward to bringing him on since then, so I really, really hope
1:06.5	that you enjoy this one.
1:08.0	Also, this Monday, Legend of the Modern Wisdom Game, Alex Hormosi, joins me again for
1:13.3	Round 2 on his own, and it was great, it was absolutely phenomenal, so make sure that
1:18.2	you hit subscribe because this Monday is a big one.
1:22.0	In other news, this episode is brought to you by Jim Shark.
1:25.8	I just got back from Jim Shark's Lyft LA event, and if you'd seen me there, you would
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