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#570 - Helen Lewis - Investigating The World Of Modern Gurus

Modern Wisdom

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What's the Peak End Rule?

There's always been a dynamic where individual groups are categorized by the most extreme members. I think that there's an equivalent dynamic going on within individuals. You have their worst transgression, and you have their most recent transgression. That's how much of the public views, in my opinion, big names that they see that exist like out there that create stuff. And after a while, people no longer actually are seen as people. People don't see the normal person doesn't see Joe Rogan as a person. They see him as an amalgamation of ideas fused into human form. It just happens to be that the human was there before and has always gone through.

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