19 Harsh Truths About Human Nature - Alex Hormozi - #610
Modern Wisdom
04/03/23
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Alex Hormozi is a founder, investor and an author.
Alex's Twitter has been one of my favourite sources of great insights over the last year. Today we get to go through some of my favourite lessons from him about life, human behaviour, psychology, business and resilience. This is really good.
Expect to learn how your ego is keeping you poor, why you never need to care about what anyone else thinks of you, why having a life that sucks is actually a blessing, whether most easy opportunities are just distractions, how to conquer your tiny impulses, why you are built to deal with things being hard, how to beat anyone who ever copies you and much more...
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(00:00) Intro (00:50) The Advantage of Having Something to Lose (13:23) Changing Your Environment to Improve Your Life (19:07) Distractions Come Dressed as Easy Opportunities (30:33) Regretting the Opportunities Not Taken (34:30) Find Motivation in Difficulty (51:53) How to Take the First Steps to Success (57:50) How Alex Overcame a Difficult Upbringing (1:02:11) Balancing Success & Feeling Content (1:17:10) Finding What to Optimise For (1:22:29) Don’t Underestimate Your Opponent (1:27:33) More People Stay Poor From Their Ego than Get Rich Off Them (1:36:55) The Next Trends in Social Media (1:44:32) What’s Next for Alex
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How To Understand Psychological Incentives - Uri Gneezy - #609
April 1, 2023
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Uri Gneezy is a behavioural economist, a professor at the University of California and an author who's research focuses on human incentives.
Incentives encourage humans to do things. But they're not as straight forward as you might think. They often have unintended and disastrous consequences for our personal lives, businesses and societies. Basically, a bad incentive is worse than no incentive at all.
Expect to learn why paying citizens 10p for a rat tail is a bad idea, how fining parents for taking their kids on holiday results in more kids missing school, why the Toyota Prius won because of its strange design, how reframing discounts can rapidly change behaviour, why Peloton's sales went up when they increased the price, why Coke machines have an outdoors thermometer on them and much more...
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(00:00) Intro (00:25) Explaining Incentives (03:55) Social Dynamics of Signalling (12:15) The Problem with Mixed Signals (17:34) Uber’s Driver Incentive Program (21:02) The Right Way to Encourage Innovation & Punish Failure (28:06) How Peloton Sold More With a Higher Price (32:50) The Mixed Signal of Long-Term Goals & Short-Term Results (38:31) How Incentives Are Helping Prevent Female Genital Mutilation (46:24) Why Fines Are So Bad at Incentivising Behaviour (52:41) How an LA Car Company Used Incentives to Drive Sales (1:02:18) Using Incentives to Find Problems (1:08:14) What Most People Get Wrong About Negotiation (1:13:30) Where to Find Uri
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Hannah Barnes is an award-winning investigative journalist, and an author.
Finding your place in the world can be hard. However, some interventions for struggling children may cause more harm than good. Britain's Gender Identity Development Service at The Tavistock Clinic has recently been shut down after controversial use of puberty blockers and Hannah's investigation uncovers exactly what happened.
Expect to learn why there was a huge increase in the number of children being referred for puberty blockers, just how ideological this institution was, whether the effects of puberty blockers can be reversed, whether children can consent to life altering medication, just who is to blame, how these treatments can put children on a one-way-ticket to much more serious procedures and much more...
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The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman
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