Hunter Maats talks with Dave Rael about education, perspective, science, reason, persuasion, and fundamentalism
Chapters:
0:52 - Hunter's background and story5:43 - Resources and resourcefulness10:30 - Thinking and feeling are always linked15:21 - The Straight-A Conspiracy, Mindset, and practical learning21:56 - Aristocrats, eugenics, and Intelligence Quotient25:40 - IQ research, the blind men and the elephant, and sectarian differences35:01 - The relevance of "redneck culture"42:20 - The meaning of "Mixed Mental Arts"49:59 - Managing anger, engaging people with difficult perspectives, and challenging people53:30 - Fundamentalism60:47 - Identification of fundamentalists71:58 - The difference between the message sent and the message received75:21 - Susceptibility of humans to fundamentalism83:50 - Shaking up echo chambers and rounding out worldviewsResources:
Mixed Mental ArtsThe Straight-A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the World - Hunter MaatsJim WatsonMan's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. FranklThe Mixed Mental Arts Book ListSome Context on "You should never meet your heroes"Katie O'BrienWilliam KamkwambaThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William KamkwambaGood Will HuntingCarol DweckMindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark TwainThe Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition - Charles DarwinFrancis GaltonLewis TermanThe Blind Men and the ElephantHeritability of IQIntelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count - Richard E. NisbettRichard NisbettMandi Ainslie"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron LevensteinThomas SowellBlack Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas SowellAlvin Toffler"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin TofflerBryan Callen"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." - Bruce LeeHamlet (AmazonClassics Edition) - William ShakespeareThe Tao of Pooh - Benjamin HoffSam HarrisRichard DawkinsAtul GawandeAtul Gawande at Caltech on the nature of the scientist - "... an experimental mind, not a litigious one" - quoting Edwin Hubble"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William ShakespeareThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan HaidtLena DunhamRichard SpencerBoggartTom WoodsAnarcho-capitalismTom Woods on the Bryan Callen Show / Mixed Mental Arts podcastStrong Opinions, Weakly HeldFantich and Young
View all episodes
