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Comfort Languages and Nuanced Thinking (with Kat Woods)

Oct 20, 2020

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Four States of Distress

2min

How to Help Your Friend Feel Better

2min

How to Comfort a Friend When They're Feeling Bad

2min

How to Communicate When You're Feeling Bad

4min

The Five Comfort Languages

4min

The Importance of Comfort Languages

3min

The Importance of Personality in Languages

2min

How to Comfort People When They're Feeling Sad

3min

10.

How to Make Languages That Work

3min

11.

The Decision Tree of Depression

2min

12.

How MindEase Can Help You Calm Down Quickly

4min

13.

The Three Types of Nuance Thinking

2min

14.

The Power of Accepting Flaws

2min

15.

The Power of Nuance Thinking

2min

16.

How to Increase Complexity in Your Thinking

2min

17.

How to Compress Your Ads

3min

18.

The Importance of Listening

2min

19.

How to Choose the Right People to Trust

2min

20.

How to Choose the Right People for Your Epistemic Council

2min

21.

The Epicenter Council and the Importance of Consensus

2min

22.

The Importance of Intelligence

2min

23.

The Importance of Intelligence

2min

24.

The Importance of Being a Sharp Mind

4min

25.

The Failure Mode of Smart People

4min

26.

How to Make People Use Thinking Tools More Often

2min

27.

How to Be Motivated by Points

3min

28.

The Four States of Distress

2min

29.

How to Help Someone Through a Difficult Time

2min

30.

The Different Kinds of Nuance Thinking

2min

31.

The Importance of Multi-Factor Thinking

2min

What's the best way to help someone who's going through a difficult situation? What are the four states of distress? What are "comfort languages"? How can we introduce more nuance into our everyday thinking habits? When gathering information and forming opinions, how do you know who to trust? What's the difference between intelligence and wisdom?

Kat Woods is the co-founder of Charity Entrepreneurship, a startup incubator for effective altruist charities. It provides training, seed funding, and the other things necessary to kickstart an effective nonprofit. Previously, Kat co-founded Charity Science Outreach, a meta-organization that raised nine counterfactual dollars for high impact charities for every dollar spent. Subsequently she co-founded Charity Science Health, a direct poverty charity that received multiple grants from GiveWell and has served hundreds of thousands of families in India. You can find more about Kat at her website or on Twitter at @kat__woods.

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