My Chat with Professor Amy Chua, Tiger Mom Extraordinaire (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_304)

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Topics include the honey badger mindset, successful immigration groups, the collapse of civilizations, democracy, globalization, ethnic conflict, parenting strategies, birth order effects, writing tips, mercantilism, resilience, academic elitism in the ivory tower, political tribalism, and cancel culture. _______________________________________ Amy Chua is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is the author of five books: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability; Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom; The Triple Package: Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - And Why They Fall; How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America; and Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations. _______________________________________ This chat was posted earlier this summer on PodTV's platforms. However, since terminating our contract by mutual consent, the rights to this clip revert back to me, and hence I'm now posting it on my platforms. _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This chat was posted earlier today (October 18, 2021) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1320: https://youtu.be/1I2YLiao9Hg _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Okay guys I'm incredibly excited to have today with me Professor Amy Chua who is a law school
0:08.8	professor at a somewhat unknown university, Yale University.
0:14.0	I really wanted to speak to her because I've been an admirer of her books for a while,
0:18.0	but the main reason I want to speak to her is because she exemplifies what I call the true honey badger spirit.
0:24.9	Amy, welcome on the show.
0:26.1	I was so happy to see that. I didn't know what that referred to and I googled it and I loved it.
0:31.3	I loved the description.
0:33.0	Thanks for having me.
0:34.0	Oh, pleasure.
0:35.0	For those of you who don't know in the last chapter of my latest book,
0:40.0	I implore people to activate their inner honey badger meaning to be courageous and
0:45.4	you know in speaking out and fighting within the battle of ideas and the reason why I
0:49.9	use the honey bad badger is because it is the an animal the size of a small dog but that
0:55.3	is so fierce and ferocious that it could withstand an attack of six adult lions
1:00.0	and they run away in hiding and so Amy you are this week's honey badger I hope I can live up to this
1:07.0	All right so what I wanted to do first is promote your I think you're at five books, correct?
1:13.2	Yes. And you are the first lovely guest to actually send me all of her books,
1:19.6	not just sending them to me, personally autographing. So let's go through them. I think I put them in
1:24.7	chronological order. Let me put my glasses because I'm getting old. World on fire, how
1:29.7	exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability.
1:35.6	That's 2003 I believe.
1:37.6	Yeah, you know what's funny now?
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