Our guest in this episode is Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, a disaster-avoidance expert who has spent more than 20 years training businesses how to de-bias themselves. 
He is the author for Never Trust Your Gut and he is here to talk about his new book The Blind Spots Between Us.
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184 - The Blind Spots Between Us - Gleb Tsipursky

You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each episode, we explore what we've learned so far about reasoning, biases, judgments, and decision-making.

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289 - Hack Your Bureaucracy - Marina Nitze (rebroadcast)

In this episode we sit down with Brian Klaas, author of Fluke,  to get into the existential lessons and grander meaning for a life well-lived once one finally accepts the power and influence of randomness, chaos, and chance. In addition, we learn not to fall prey to proportionality bias - the tendency for human brains to assume big, historical, or massively impactful events must have had big causes and/or complex machinations underlying their grand outcomes. It’s one of the cognitive biases that most contributes to conspiratorial thinking and grand conspiracy theories, one that leads to an assumption that there must be something more going on when big, often unlikely, events make the evening news. Yet, as Brian explains, events big and small are often the result of random inputs in complex systems interacting in ways that are difficult to predict. Previous Episodes Brian Klaas Fluke How Minds Change David McRaney’s Twitter YANSS Twitter Newsletter Patreon

288 - Fluke - Brian Klaas

In this episode, we  are exploring the complexity of the concept of "genius" with two experts on the topic. First you’ll hear from David Krakauer, the president of The Santa Fe Institute, a research institution in New Mexico dedicated to the study of complexity science, and then you'll hear from professor Dean Keith Simonton, one of the world’s leading researchers into the psychological mechanisms and influences that generate the phenomenon we so often refer to as "genius."  Previous Episodes The Santa Fe Institute Dean K Simonton How Minds Change David McRaney’s Twitter YANSS Twitter Newsletter

287 - The Complexity of Genius - David Krakauer and Dean Simonton

In this episode we sit down with professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity,  to get an introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave – from cells to human beings, ecosystems, the known universe, and beyond – and we explore if Ian Malcolm was right when he told us in Jurassic Park that "Life, um, finds a way." Previous Episodes Neil Theise's Website Notes on Complexity Conway's Game of Life The Santa Fe Institute Technosphere How Minds Change David McRaney’s Twitter YANSS Twitter Newsletter

286 - Notes on Complexity - Neil Theise

Is a hotdog a sandwich? Well, that depends on your definition of a sandwich (and a hotdog), and according to the most recent research in cognitive science, the odds that your concept of a sandwich is the same as another person's concept are shockingly low. In this episode we explore how understanding why that question became a world-spanning argument in the mid 2010s helps us understand some of the world-spanning arguments vexing us today. Our guest is psychologist Celeste Kidd who studies how we acquire and conceptualize information, form beliefs around those concepts, and, in general, make sense of the torrent of information blasting our brains each and every second. Her most recent paper examines how conceptual misalignment can lead to semantic disagreements, which can lead us to talk past each other (and get into arguments about things like whether hotdogs are sandwiches). Previous Episodes  Why can’t we settle the “is a hot dog a sandwich?” debate? How Minds Change David McRaney’s Twitter YANSS Twitter Newsletter Celeste Kidd’s Website Celeste Kidd’s Twitter Latent Diversity in Human Concepts

184 - The Blind Spots Between Us - Gleb Tsipursky

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