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#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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You Got More Than You Asked For

In the book, you have a concept called the power paradox. Can you explain that and why it's a paradox? When i feel powerful, we show when i feelPower is rooted in my ability to stir the actions of other people around me in etive way. That's about as good an assessment of power as you can conceptualize. You do that by being bold and by being mpathetic,. By animating them in ways that move them in that direction. And then here's where the paradox comes in, which is another part of my lab, was studying what happens once you feel powerful.

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