Understanding The Wisdom Of Psychopaths - Dr Kevin Dutton - #552

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Dr Kevin Dutton is a psychologist, author, and elite performance consultant whose research focuses on persuasion and social influence, psychopathic personality and elite cognition. Psychopaths get a bad rap. Perhaps understandably. They have a branding problem to say the least. But there are some personality traits like emotional control, focus, drive and single-mindedness that elite performers can model off of psychopaths to improve their effectiveness. Expect to learn how psychopathy exists at all, why teams kicking second in a penalty shootout have a 30% greater chance of missing, why psychopath pilots in world war 2 didn't make it home even though they won their fights, how different accents can be more prejudiced against than different races, why splitting the world into categories creates a foundation for huge biases to occur and much more... Sponsors: Get 7 days free access and 25% discount from Blinkist at https://blinkist.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get 20% discount on House Of Macadamias’ nuts at https://houseofmacadamias.com/modernwisdom (use code MW20) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (03:13) Why Does Psychopathy Exist? (10:05) Psychology of Penalty Shootouts (18:01) The Human Ability to Categorise (28:13) Lessons on Narrow Focus from Hoarders (38:55) Kevin’s Studies of Conmen (47:30) The Evolution of Super-Categories (55:49) Why a Different Accent Evokes Prejudice (1:02:13) How Brains Conflate Simplicity with Truth (1:11:33) Where to Find Dr Dutton Extra Stuff: Buy Kevin's Book - https://amzn.to/3fmAm9A Check out Kevin's website - https://www.drkevindutton.com/ Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to the show.
0:03.8	My guest today is Dr. Kevin Dutton.
0:06.1	He's a psychologist, author and elite performance consultant whose research focuses on psychopathic
0:11.3	personality and elite cognition.
0:14.4	Psychopaths get a bad rap, perhaps understandably.
0:17.1	They have a branding problem to say the least, but there are some personality traits like
0:22.0	emotional control, focus, drive and single mindedness that elite performers can model off to improve
0:28.2	their effectiveness every day.
0:30.7	Expect to learn how psychopathy exists at all, why teams kicking second in a penalty
0:36.2	shootout have a 30% greater chance of missing, why psychopath pilots in World War 2 didn't
0:41.9	make it home even though they won their fights, how different accents can be more prejudiced
0:46.6	against than different races, why splitting the world into categories creates a foundation
0:51.3	for huge biases to occur, and much more.
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1:18.4	Thank you.
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