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#523 - Dr Christian Jarrett - The Science Of Personality Change

Modern Wisdom

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Adaptive Psychology

If you're a Viking tribe, and you want to send a rating party across to Linda's farm for them to go and fuck up some Jordies in whatever, 10 hundred BC, 10 hundred AD, it makes sense to have some psychopaths. So it's actually adaptive. And then also our desires around other people, you know, I am more attracted to friends that are a little bit more introverted than a super extrovert. Yeah. Especially across an entire group size of a tribe or something, I'm going to guess as well.

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