What can be attributed to our general inadequacy when it comes to do the ''right'' things and avoid doing the ''bad'' things? 

In this episode my friend Emilio and I do a deep dive into how the lack of complex and intangible concepts in the evolutionary process leading to us caused our current incapacity to do the things we know are good but require insight, rationality and long term dedication and how we end up falling for the ''quick fix'' that is perjudicial in the long term (the episode is full of examples, ranging from fast food to socialism to drugs...).

Me and my friend Emilio argue about the third category that most things fall into when it comes to judging things in terms of Fairness, this third option is non-intuitive due to our predisposition to judge things as being binary(as in fair or unfair). The third category: the lack of fairness or unfairness(or extrajudicial), takes into account that many things in life come given to us (us not having been capable of using our agency to affect these things); our genetic predisposition to develop a medical condition, our family´s wealth or well being, our beauty(topic for another episode), the country in which we were born into, our genetic incapability to run 100meters in less than 10s(in most of the cases no matter the training you will not achieve certain (top) athletic accomplishments)...  

Our incapability to see things other than by the binary way makes our way of approaching lots of topics imprecise and leaking when trying to describe things properly.

In this episode my friend Baer and I talked about what rationality is, the impossibility of  being rational without taking into account other people's irrationality in order to achieve your goals, how the ego is detrimental to your long term flourishing and how it is correlated with the influence the instinct has in our lives and our willingness to perpetuate our genes (ensuring survival).

The existence of altruism as doing something selflessly is discussed deeply in this episode by my good friend Baer and me.

In this episode I talk about what I intend to do with this podcast, I let you know that my primary intention with this podcast is to have an open mind towards the different hard topics that will be covered in the future episodes as I believe that having an open mind and being ''rational'' is the best approach to maximising your human capital (as in capability of generating value in general, not just money).

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