The Psychology Of Power & Status - David Pinsof | Modern Wisdom 668
David Pinsof is a professor of psychology at UCLA, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity and an author.
Humans want things. Then we tell ourselves stories about why we want those things. And these reasons are often very flattering, but almost exclusively bullshit. We do not understand our motivations, and this is part of our brain’s design. So, given this limit on introspection, is it possible to ever truly understand ourselves?
Expect to learn the difference between bullshitting and lying, why we can’t we admit that we want status, why human desires are so fickle and silly, how the modern world has hijacked our status games, why we find certain things interesting, why you actually don’t want to be happy no matter how much you claim that you do and much more...
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