Why Can No One Think Rationally Anymore? - George Mack - #721

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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George Mack is a writer, marketer and an entrepreneur. Thinking for yourself is one of the most important skills you can develop. However it's hard. It's a difficult task to overcome the boring, negative, irrational trends around you. Which is why you need some new tools in your mental models box. Expect to learn what the Keynsian Beauty Contest is, why memes are so influential in society today, which behaviours appear positive but actually harm you in disguise, what the forgetting paradox is, what the most useful emotional state is, why “ignorance is bliss” is a putdown in 2023 and much more... Timestamps: (00:00) The Ranked Levels of Social Interaction (07:50) Introvert or Need Better Friends? (12:27) The Importance of Memes (18:58) Understanding the Power of Leverage (27:18) Memes Compress Mass Emotion (33:33) The Coming Cybercrime Crisis (37:50) Hiring Chief Meme Officers (43:19) Is Mainstream Media Still Prestigious? (49:10) Why Everything is Wrong (51:33) Avoid Trojan Horses of Content (1:00:09) How to Craft Your Content Algorithm (1:04:35) How Many Thoughts Can You Remember? (1:15:37) Crazy Ideas That Will Become Norma (1:22:01) Slow Success Strategy for Happiness (1:27:20) The Most Useful Emotional State (1:35:46) Guy Ritchie’s New Foot-Warmer (1:37:38) What’s Next for George Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.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.
0:02.8	My guest today is George Mack.
0:04.6	He's a writer, marketer, and an entrepreneur.
0:07.6	Thinking for yourself is one of the most important skills you can develop.
0:10.9	However, it's hard. It's a difficult task to overcome the boring negative irrational
0:15.6	trends around you, which is why you need some new tools in your mental models box.
0:20.4	Expect to learn what the Keynesian beauty contest is, why memes are so influential in society today,
0:26.0	which behaviors appear positive but actually harm you in disguise, what the forgetting paradox is,
0:32.0	what the most useful emotional state is, why ignorance is bliss
0:35.6	is a putdown in 2023, and much more.
0:40.2	George has been coming on the show for five years now and every single time that I get to speak to him. I love it.
0:47.5	He has one of the best insights into human nature and social trends and why we are the way we are.
0:54.2	I just love it.
0:55.4	This is what we talk about over dinner or coffee,
0:58.1	and it's exactly the same conversation now,
0:59.8	just minus the coffee and the dinner.
1:01.8	And one week today, it's Christmas it's
1:04.1	can be Christmas day and there will be no episode on Christmas day time to put your
1:08.5	phone down and spend it with the people that you enjoy that are around you
1:11.6	but we've got a Christmas special coming out.
1:15.0	We've got a Lessons from 2023 episode this Thursday which is so good and was one of the biggest
1:21.5	most played episodes of last year so you don't
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