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#721 - George Mack - Why Can No One Think Rationally Anymore?
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Length:
101 minutes
Released:
Dec 18, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
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...
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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...
Sponsors:
Get a 35% discount on all Cozy Earth products at http://www.cozyearth.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied)
Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at https://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied)
Get 15% discount on Craftd London’s jewellery at https://craftd.com/modernwisdom (use code MW15)
Extra Stuff:
Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/
Buy my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom
-
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/
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Released:
Dec 18, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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