Hey it's Leo for actualized.org and in this episode I'm going to talk about why people seem crazy. Always remember that you are absolutely unique just like everyone else.

A quote by Margaret Mead.

This topic here is a lot deeper and more profound than you might initially think just from hearing the title.

This is one of those foundational topics.

What I want to do here is I want to convince you to change your model of people.

And you do have a model of people.

You use this model to explain why people are the way they are.

You also use this model to dismiss certain people, certain individuals, or certain groups of people entirely. by doing so you rob yourself of some

important understanding and also you agitate yourself so this is an

important and quite practical matter to look into, but we have to look into it at a very fundamental level.

There are two basic models that you can use to think about people.

One is that people are all the same and the other is that people are all different.

Most people hold the first one. They hold that most people are the same. And this creates

problems for them. I used to hold this model myself for a long time. And just in the last year or two I've had to make

changes. I've had to change my model because I've studied so much diverse stuff, so many diverse

perspectives that it's no longer tenable for me to

hold that all people are the same. It just doesn't hold up to empirical facts,

especially when you start to study the edge cases of human beings.

This model sits very deeply in your mind.

Usually you don't think about it.

It's there as a default position. And of course our

modern 21st century culture likes to tell us that everybody is equal because we

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