Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share How Love Turns You Insane - Dr Max Butterfield - #1069
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
How Love Turns You Insane - Dr Max Butterfield - #1069
Dr. Max Butterfield is an experimental psychologist and professor who studies relationships and decision-making.
Why does love make us do crazy things? Rom-coms make relationships look easy, but real love is far more complicated. So what actually makes a relationship work—and why does love make us act irrationally?
Expect to learn what science says about what people should do to recover from a breakup, if the Norwegian skier who confessed to cheating on his girlfriend was doing more harm than good to his relationship, what Dr Max wished more men and women knew about how to signal interest, why we ruminate so much and how to ruminate less, what healthy communication actually looks like and much more…
Timestamps:
(0:00) Did This Declaration of Love Backfire?
(7:37) Why Grand Gestures are a Bad Idea in Dating
(14:03) The Psychology of Breakups: How to Recover Faster
(18:58) Is a Breakup Really Like Losing Someone?
(20:31) Why Do We Ruminate So Much?
(31:01) Does Rejection Actually Shape Us?
(32:32) How to Signal Romantic Interest
(37:52) Why Women Signal Beauty Through Clothing
(44:30) Is She Actually Out of His League?
(47:02) Relationship Red Flags You Shouldn’t Ignore
(50:32) The Fascinating Evolutionary Approach to Relationships
(56:36) Green Flags: What to Look for in a Healthy Relationship
(01:03:51) The Power of a Psychological Reset
(01:11:18) Does Direct Communication Improve Relationships?
(01:16:27) The Hidden Role of Indirect Aggression
(01:21:36) Why Intrasexual Competition is So Controversial
(01:27:12) The Power of Healthy Communication in Relationships
(01:38:33) What’s Next For Ben
Sponsors:
See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals
Get 10% discount on all Gymshark products at https://gym.sh/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM10)
Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://shopify.com/modernwisdom
Get up to $50 off the RP Hypertrophy App at https://rpstrength.com/modernwisdom
Get 15% off your first order of my favourite Non-Alcoholic Brew at https://athleticbrewing.com/modernwisdom
Extra Stuff:
Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books
Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom
Episodes You Might Enjoy:
#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins
#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson
#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman
-
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
-
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
View all episodes
By Chris Williamson
4.6
34213,421 ratings
Dr. Max Butterfield is an experimental psychologist and professor who studies relationships and decision-making.
Why does love make us do crazy things? Rom-coms make relationships look easy, but real love is far more complicated. So what actually makes a relationship work—and why does love make us act irrationally?
Expect to learn what science says about what people should do to recover from a breakup, if the Norwegian skier who confessed to cheating on his girlfriend was doing more harm than good to his relationship, what Dr Max wished more men and women knew about how to signal interest, why we ruminate so much and how to ruminate less, what healthy communication actually looks like and much more…
Timestamps:
(0:00) Did This Declaration of Love Backfire?
(7:37) Why Grand Gestures are a Bad Idea in Dating
(14:03) The Psychology of Breakups: How to Recover Faster
(18:58) Is a Breakup Really Like Losing Someone?
(20:31) Why Do We Ruminate So Much?
(31:01) Does Rejection Actually Shape Us?
(32:32) How to Signal Romantic Interest
(37:52) Why Women Signal Beauty Through Clothing
(44:30) Is She Actually Out of His League?
(47:02) Relationship Red Flags You Shouldn’t Ignore
(50:32) The Fascinating Evolutionary Approach to Relationships
(56:36) Green Flags: What to Look for in a Healthy Relationship
(01:03:51) The Power of a Psychological Reset
(01:11:18) Does Direct Communication Improve Relationships?
(01:16:27) The Hidden Role of Indirect Aggression
(01:21:36) Why Intrasexual Competition is So Controversial
(01:27:12) The Power of Healthy Communication in Relationships
(01:38:33) What’s Next For Ben
Sponsors:
See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals
Get 10% discount on all Gymshark products at https://gym.sh/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM10)
Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://shopify.com/modernwisdom
Get up to $50 off the RP Hypertrophy App at https://rpstrength.com/modernwisdom
Get 15% off your first order of my favourite Non-Alcoholic Brew at https://athleticbrewing.com/modernwisdom
Extra Stuff:
Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books
Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom
Episodes You Might Enjoy:
#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins
#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson
#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman
-
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
-
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
More shows like Modern Wisdom
View all
The Joe Rogan Experience
228,335 Listeners
The Tim Ferriss Show
16,076 Listeners
The Rich Roll Podcast
11,908 Listeners
The School of Greatness
21,126 Listeners
Founders
2,175 Listeners
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
33,104 Listeners
Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
4,712 Listeners
The Game with Alex Hormozi
4,459 Listeners
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
8,586 Listeners
TRIGGERnometry
2,191 Listeners
The Peter Attia Drive
8,007 Listeners
Naval
2,152 Listeners
The Nick Bare Podcast
5,781 Listeners
Huberman Lab
29,319 Listeners
First Things THRST
97 Listeners