Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson, and welcome to another edition of

10 Good Minutes.

On these short, explainer type episodes I dive into some specific content related to

the ideas that we explore on the podcast.

And particularly, research tends to come up a lot.

In psychology and the social sciences, and broadly, what we can do to be a happier and

healthier person over time.

Some pieces of research become really famous.

For instance, you might have heard about the Marshmallow experiment, or the 10,000 hour

rule, or the Dunning Kruger effect, the Stanford Prison Experiment, or maybe Willpower Fatigue.

These are some of the most well-known pieces of research from the social sciences.

They've spawned thousands of books, and TED Talks, and Think pieces, and mentions from

your favorite pop psychology creators, whether that be podcasts, or YouTube, or whatever else.

There's just one problem with all of those pieces of research that I just mentioned.

None of them are accurate, or at the very least, they're not quite as simple as the one

sentence summary that you may have heard online makes them appear.

And this is actually a symptom of a larger problem that's facing the social sciences.

It's shockingly common for all kinds of holes to be found in research that becomes really

popular, but popular belief in the theories behind that research are rarely updated.

So in today's podcast episode, I'm going to be going through some of that research and

explaining the issues with it.

I'm also going to talk a little bit at the end about the broader problem, which is known

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