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177. Intimations of Creativity | Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman

Jun 17, 2021

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Scott Barry Kaufman

In this discussion, Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, a cognitive scientist and host of The Psychology Podcast, dives deep into the complexities of human potential and creativity. He critiques traditional IQ tests, emphasizing the need for a more nuanced understanding of intelligence. The conversation explores the intersection of personality traits, creativity, and humanistic psychology, touching on Maslow's insights about motivation. They also reflect on the role of technology in education, the importance of human connection, and the dynamics of power in relationships.

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Cognitive Science Definition

Cognitive science is interdisciplinary, involving psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and computer science.
It explores the mind's functions, limits, and how the nervous system represents it.

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Intelligence Mechanisms

Intelligence involves multiple general cognitive mechanisms contributing to general intelligence.
Working memory is a key mechanism, leading to research on sex differences in it.

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Positive Manifold

The positive manifold shows people doing well on one abstract test do well on others, even without expertise.
General cognitive mechanisms apply to any task, especially novel ones.

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The Power of Humanity in Communication

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Redefining Education in the Digital Age

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Exploring Creativity and Personal Environment

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Transcend

The New Science of Self-Actualization

Scott Barry Kaufman

In this groundbreaking book, Scott Barry Kaufman updates Maslow's hierarchy of needs by integrating Maslow's unfinished theory of transcendence with the latest research on attachment, connection, creativity, love, and purpose. Kaufman's new hierarchy of needs serves as a roadmap for finding purpose and fulfillment by becoming the best version of oneself, rather than striving for money, success, or happiness. The book emphasizes the importance of merging self-development with a connection to the world, highlighting that self-actualization requires both individual growth and a deep integration with others. It includes never-before-published insights, new research findings, and exercises to help readers gain insight into their unique personality and nurture a deeper connection with their highest potential and humanity.

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Wired to Create

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

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Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the 'messy minds' of highly creative people. Based on Scott Barry Kaufman’s groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire’s popular article in the Huffington Post, the book reveals the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology. It explores the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking, such as mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration. The authors identify ten attributes and habits of highly creative minds, including imaginative play, passion, daydreaming, solitude, intuition, openness to experience, mindfulness, sensitivity, turning adversity into advantage, and thinking differently. By embracing these contradictions, individuals can tap into their deepest creativity.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence

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Mating Intelligence Unleashed

The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love

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In 'Mating Intelligence Unleashed', psychologists Glenn Geher and Scott Barry Kaufman delve into the intersection of mating and intelligence. The book highlights that human mating involves more than physical attractiveness, emphasizing the role of mental skills such as creativity, charisma, intelligence, humor, personality, and emotional intelligence. It addresses questions like how people choose mates, the role of personality in mating, attractive and repulsive traits, deception in relationships, and the importance of emotional intelligence. The authors draw on cutting-edge research to provide insights into the high-level cognitive processes that underlie human mating behaviors.

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The Mating Mind

How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

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In 'The Mating Mind,' Geoffrey Miller proposes that the human mind evolved not just as a survival machine but as a courtship machine. He argues that many of the distinctive human traits, such as language, art, music, and morality, were developed as fitness indicators and sexual attractors. Miller draws on Darwin's theory of sexual selection and integrates ideas from psychology, economics, history, and pop culture to explain how these traits were shaped by the sexual choices of our ancestors. The book suggests that once language evolved, thought itself became subject to sexual selection, and that human courtship is a primary driving force behind human evolution.

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The Complexity of Greatness

Beyond Talent or Practice

Scott Barry Kaufman

The Complexity of Greatness delves into the multifaceted nature of achieving greatness, combining insights from genetics, talent, intelligence, deliberate practice, creativity, and persistence across various fields like science, mathematics, arts, and sports. It emphasizes that greatness is more complex than just talent or practice, involving a nuanced interplay of factors.

This episode was recorded on April 13th, 2021

On this Season 4, Episode 31 of the Jordan Peterson Podcast, Jordan is joined by Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman. Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive scientist exploring the limits of human potential. He hosts the very popular podcast 'The Psychology Podcast'. He is an author, editor, and co-editor of nine books including his newest 'Transcend: The New Science of Self Actualization'.

Dr. Kaufman and Jordan discussed cognitive science, behavioral study, and Humanism. They also touched on many points including IQ. tests, personality traits, aggression in hierarchy, dating intelligence, self-actualization, long-form media, and much more.

Find more Scott Kaufman on his website https://scottbarrykaufman.com/, in his books, and on his podcast show The Psychology Podcast

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast can be found at https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/

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