How To Leverage The Psychology Of Power & Status - David Pinsof - #668

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is David Pinsof. He's 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 admit that we actually 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. Really lovely insight here. Some very counterintuitive, difficult to listen to laws and insights about human nature. David is great. I saw him give a presentation in Palm Springs a couple of months ago, and I've been looking forward to bringing him on since then. So I really, really hope that you enjoy this one. Also, this Monday, Legend of the Modern Wisdom game, Alex Hormozi joins me again for round two on his own. And it was great. It was absolutely phenomenal. So make sure that you hit subscribe, because this Monday is a big one. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Gymshark. I just got back from Gymshark's Lift LA event. And if you'd seen me there, you would have seen me wearing these studio shorts in Dusty Maroon and Willow Green, which by far are the greatest men's training shorts ever created in history. And I will stand by that. They are phenomenal. Their crest hoodie in light gray mall and misty pink and the Geo seamless t-shirt in barley green white and navy fog blue are a bunch of different garments that you will have seen me wearing on this podcast. And if you've ever caught me in a airport, traveling from one place to another, I love all of Gymshark's kit.
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