Mind-Control, Daydreaming and Intelligence.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Good Life Riff: What if everything you knew to be truth and real was subject to complete manipulation?
What if there was something anyone could do, in a relatively short matter of time, to lead you to first doubt your certainty and then eventually belief the complete opposite. Even if you'd been right, and there was zero proof to support what this other person was telling you?
Turns out, there is something. It's a frighteningly simple cognitive bias or kink in our brain's wiring that is being used to manipulate beliefs in everything from civil discourse to advertising to politics. What it is, how it works and how to "protect" against it is what we're talking about in today's Good Life Project Riff.
It's the second installment in our series on Cognitive Bias, aka, the wacky things our brains do to make us think we're rational, but lead us to delusion. And, if you're interested in the first installment in the series on the Anchoring Bias, you can find it here.
Good Life Science: And, in our Good Life Science segment, we're diving into some fascinating new research on the connection between daydreaming, intelligence, creativity and having a more efficient brain around you. Turns out, if you've been a chronic daydreamer all your life, it might actually a sign of intelligence, not slackerdom! And, as always, for those want to go to the source, here's a link to the full study.
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| 0:00.0 | So you know, it's kind of funny doing some of the research on this current series in our |
| 0:07.9 | Thursday updates on cognitive bias. |
| 0:10.8 | It's just reminding me how completely random and irrational we really can be as human beings |
| 0:16.5 | how easily persuadable we are, even though we don't think we are. |
| 0:19.9 | This week we're diving into the second in our series on cognitive biases, the weird |
| 0:24.9 | wacky ways that our brains kind of dilute us into thinking certain things are true when |
| 0:30.6 | in fact they are not. |
| 0:32.1 | Last week we talked about something called anchoring. |
| 0:34.1 | This week we're talking about something called the elucary truth effect, also sometimes |
| 0:38.7 | known as simply the truth effect. |
| 0:41.1 | Then when we head into our science update we will be exploring some really fascinating |
| 0:45.7 | new research that links daydreaming maybe to intelligence in a way that oh your high |
| 0:53.7 | school teacher may not like what this science says. |
| 0:57.2 | Anyway, excited to share all this with you, I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life |
| 1:02.2 | Project. |
| 1:23.7 | So we're diving back into our series on cognitive bias. |
| 1:46.4 | If this is the first Good Life update that you're listening to this series began just |
| 1:52.2 | last week. |
| 1:53.2 | So you can if you feel like it jump back over there just continue to listen to this and |
| 1:58.5 | then go check it last week. |
| 2:00.3 | If you want to catch the whole series on cognitive bias the weird ways that our brains work and |
| 2:06.6 | lead us to think and believe things that are completely irrational and not true and have |
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