The 5 Good Intentions That Lead to Failure (And How to Turn Them Around) | Jonathan Heidt (Replay)

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🗓️ 22 June 2024

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Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt researches moral psychology to help us understand ourselves and our world better. He is an expert on how we create webs of meaning that allow us to speak a common language, build institutions, and create functioning societies. And right now we may need his voice more than ever, as our webs of meaning seem to be in conflict with each other or slowly disintegrating. On this episode of Conversations with Tom Bilyeu, Jonathan Haidt explains why we need to lead with empathy, how to persuade people who have staked out very different positions from yours, and how to invite disconfirming evidence into your life. [Original air date: 8-20-20]. SHOW NOTES: Why are we 90% chimps and 10% bees? [2:01] Jonathan suggests a definition of morality [4:14] Jonathan and Tom discuss religion and spiritual, mind-opening experiences [5:53] Jonathan explains the “hive switch”, the group experience of religion and morality [11:27] Jonathan and Tom discuss the power of connection and group interaction [16:34] Jonathan talks about the problems with social media and how they developed [20:18] What makes some webs of meaning so powerful that they spread so fast? [27:57] Jonathan and Tom ask to what extent political affiliation is genetic [33:29] Jonathan discusses the disturbing trend towards conformity in political thought [37:18] Jonathan and Tom discuss changing American attitudes towards race [ Jonathan talks about how hard it is to lead with empathy [46:52] Jonathan advocates trying many approaches to dealing with problems like racism [50:30] How do we constructively discuss difficult topics? [54:51] Why we have to get people to focus on similarities [59:02] Jonathan discusses his experience with psychedelics [1:03:52] How to invite disconfirming evidence into your life--How do you know you’re right? [1:10:44] We need to find a way to speak a common language in our post-Babel Age [1:16:27] FOLLOW JONATHAN: WEBSITE: jonathanhaidt.com/ FACEBOOK: facebook.com/jonathanhaidt/ TWITTER: twitter.com/JonHaidt SPONSORS: Head to https://netsuite.com/THEORY for Netsuite’s one-of-a-kind flexible financing program for a few more weeks! For comprehensive financial news and analysis, visit https://yahoofinance.com Visit https://betterhelp.com/impacttheory to get 10% off your first month Explore the Range Rover Sport at https://landroverusa.com Get 5 free AG1 Travel Packs and a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D with your first purchase at https://drinkag1.com/impact. Secure your digital life with proactive protection for your assets, identity, family, and tech – Go to https://aura.com/IMPACT to start your free two-week trial. Take control of your gut health by going to https://tryviome.com/impact and use code IMPACT to get 20% off your first 3 months and free shipping. FOLLOW TOM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here. If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast, Tom Bilyeu’s Mindset Playbook —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. LISTEN AD FREE + BONUS EPISODES on APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/impacttheory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	everybody welcome to another episode of conversations with tom i am here with jonathan height jonathan
0:08.8	thank you so much for joining me man um as i was mentioning before we got started the thing that
0:14.2	draws me to you is you seem truly committed to understanding the way the human mind works
0:19.9	and that is my like core
0:22.3	mission in life largely for my own benefit, if I'm completely honest. But I'm super excited to get
0:27.5	into that stuff with you. Well, thank you, Tom. It's a pleasure to be here. Yeah, I'm a psychologist. I'm a
0:33.6	social psychologist. And, you know, when I learn stuff professionally, I learn about, you know, how the mind works.
0:40.0	I think like, oh, now I understand that other thing or that other person.
0:44.8	So, yeah, if you want to talk about the mind for an hour, I'm there with you.
0:50.4	Yeah.
0:50.9	So the reason that I'm so focused on the mind in my own life is, so the movie The Matrix has become the dominant metaphor in my life, not because I necessarily think we are actually living in a simulation. I actually don't. Partly, I guess, because I don't find that a very interesting framework with which to approach the world. So even if we are, I don't know how useful that is. But your brain is definitely creating a detached sort of virtual reality that
1:18.6	isn't about measuring the number of photons that are reflecting off of an object and landing on
1:24.1	your eye, which would be like true objective reality, at least visually.
1:32.8	It's trying to keep you alive. And so that can be at times really advantageous and create a beautiful experience, but it can also be very problematic at times. And one of the ideas that I found
1:38.7	super intriguing from you is the idea that were 90% chimps and 10% bees.
1:45.5	I'd love to know more about like what does that mean to you and how do we use that as we
1:51.3	think about constructing our own mindset or even thinking about our minds.
1:55.5	Okay.
1:55.9	All right.
1:56.1	Let's just, let's jump into it.
1:58.6	So human beings are this really bizarre species. We, so I'm really interested in
2:08.3	sociality. Why are we so sociable? And there are, there are a lot of species that are social
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