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Understanding The Wisdom Of Psychopaths - Dr Kevin Dutton - #552
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Dr Kevin Dutton is a psychologist, author, and elite performance consultant whose research focuses on persuasion and social influence, psychopathic personality and elite cognition.
Psychopaths get a bad rap. Perhaps understandably. They have a branding problem to say the least. But there are some personality traits like emotional control, focus, drive and single-mindedness that elite performers can model off of psychopaths to improve their effectiveness.
Expect to learn how psychopathy exists at all, why teams kicking second in a penalty shootout have a 30% greater chance of missing, why psychopath pilots in world war 2 didn't make it home even though they won their fights, how different accents can be more prejudiced against than different races, why splitting the world into categories creates a foundation for huge biases to occur and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(03:13) Why Does Psychopathy Exist?
(10:05) Psychology of Penalty Shootouts
(18:01) The Human Ability to Categorise
(28:13) Lessons on Narrow Focus from Hoarders
(38:55) Kevin’s Studies of Conmen
(47:30) The Evolution of Super-Categories
(55:49) Why a Different Accent Evokes Prejudice
(1:02:13) How Brains Conflate Simplicity with Truth
(1:11:33) Where to Find Dr Dutton
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