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Jocko Underground: The Trickery and Power of Group Influence. Moving Out of California? Telling White Lies. Helping Others Through Burnout

Jocko Podcast

Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The Asch Experiment. Measuring conformity in groups.

Moving out of California for better a better business situation?

56 y/o starting Jiu Jitsu tips.

Helping a friend through burnout.

Telling white lies on an application to join the Marines.

Should I pursue football if I already got cut from the team in college?



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0:00.0

This is the Jockel Underground podcast number 16 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink.

0:06.2

Also doing this tonight, Darryl Cooper.

0:09.0

So here we go.

0:10.5

Good evening to you guys, whatever.

0:13.6

All right, so I was reading, I don't know what, um,

0:16.6

particular wormhole I was down in this situation, but I was reading this art, end up reading this article.

0:22.2

Something called the Ash Experiment run by a psychologist named Solomon Ash.

0:28.2

I want to say this is like 19, early 1950s when this went down.

0:31.9

And so we ran an experiment, which experiments are kind of underrated.

0:35.8

And I think they used to be able to get away with all kinds of stuff.

0:39.0

This one isn't bad, but they, they clearly, maybe that's a good, maybe that's a good one for,

0:44.8

for the unraveling podcast.

0:46.8

Just look at some gnarly psychological experiments.

0:50.4

They're out there.

0:51.8

Yeah, our medical experiments, we get into Tuskegee.

0:54.2

Yeah, that's a freaking nasty, feel a little bit of national shame for a moment.

1:00.0

That's a horrible, horrible one.

1:03.1

All right, so this experiment we set up like this, they had eight people in a room.

1:08.0

Seven of the people are actors or they call them Confederates in the psychological world, but they're actors.

1:14.6

And one person out of these eight is the subject of the experiment.

1:18.2

And so then they get, they get asked a question in this, this particular

1:21.8

experiment, what they did was they had, they, they described it as a vision test or a perception test.

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