Josh Szeps || Thinking Freely
The Psychology Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Today we welcome Josh Szeps who is a television, radio and podcast host who shakes up the status quo with his fierce intellect and infectious sense of humor. Josh's interviews with prominent figures and celebrities like Jane Goodall, Ron Howard, Russel Brand, and Neil Patrick Harris have attracted billions of online views and sold out event tickets. Currently, he can be heard on ABC Radio Sydney and on his award-winning podcast Uncomfortable Conversations.
In this episode, I talk to Josh Szeps about what it means to think freely. In this social media age, it's become increasingly challenging to become an independent thinker. Our tribal nature and online echo chambers tend to reinforce ideologies we already believe in. Even the way we talk sounds scripted! Josh and I discuss how to genuinely search for truth so we can broaden our worldviews. We also touch on the topics of intersectionality, wokeism, ethics, and racism.
Website: linktr.ee/joshszeps
Twitter: @joshzepps
Topics
02:35 Are we living in a simulation?
10:39 The clique of provocateurs
16:58 Compromise through conversation
23:27 The excess of wokeism
27:01 Moral foundations and disgust
31:36 Racism in the gay community
35:11 Reverse racism
37:00 Respecting individual identity over group identity
43:16 Should we be proud of intrinsic attributes?
49:08 Scripted ideologies
51:40 How to overcome binary thinking
58:01 Pushing limits through radical curiosity
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| 0:00.0 | point me to a time or a place in history where one side has had a monopoly on the truth and has been |
| 0:07.7 | 100% right. I can't think of one. I mean, right? So it's obvious that that would probably be true |
| 0:14.4 | right now and it's highly likely that the current progressive woke orthodoxy has some flaws and |
| 0:21.8 | it's highly likely that the current conservative orthodoxy has some flaws. So if you believe either |
| 0:28.0 | of them wholeheartedly, you are wrong. A significant portion of the time. |
| 0:38.8 | Hello and welcome to the Psychology Podcast. Today we welcome Josh Seps to the show. |
| 0:43.7 | Josh is an Australian television, radio and podcast host who shake things up with his fierce |
| 0:50.4 | intellect and infectious sense of humor. Josh's interviews with prominent figures and celebrities |
| 0:55.6 | like Jane Goodall, Ron Howard, Russell Brand and Neil Patrick Harris have attracted billions of |
| 1:00.4 | online views and sold out event tickets. Currently, he can be heard an ABC radio Sydney and on his |
| 1:05.6 | award-winning podcast, Uncomfortable Conversations. What an episode this was. We really didn't hold |
| 1:11.6 | anything back in our conversation. We talk about lots of things that all surround the idea of |
| 1:16.4 | thinking freely. In this social media age, it's become increasingly challenging to become an |
| 1:21.2 | independent thinker. Our tribal nature and online echo chambers tend to reinforce ideologies we |
| 1:26.3 | already believe in, even the way we talk sounds scripted and produced. Well, not in this episode. |
| 1:31.3 | Here Josh and I discuss openly and freely how to generally search for truth so we can broaden our |
| 1:36.2 | worldviews. We also touch on the topics of intersectionality, wokeism, ethics and racism, but |
| 1:42.5 | really this conversation is about so much more and the overarching thread that runs through all |
| 1:47.0 | of this conversation is just the promotion of nuance and attempts at taking lots of different |
| 1:52.8 | seeming opposite sides and looking at them as part of a larger whole and also not completely |
| 1:58.5 | identifying with your in-group and not completely hating your out-group. We hope this episode helps |
| 2:03.0 | you think more freely and powers you to think more freely. So with that further ado, I give you Josh |
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