Modern Wisdom

#552 - Dr Kevin Dutton - Understanding The Wisdom Of Psychopaths

Nov 14, 2022

01:15:46

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Kevin Dutton

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Create Urgency to Drive Action

00:34

Precision in Profession: A Double-Edged Sword

00:31

Seek Complexity, Avoid Extremity

00:35

Is There a Society of Psychopaths?

02:06

Introduction

4min

A Brief Introduction to Dr Kevin Dutton

3min

The Adaptive Explanation for Psychopathy

5min

Is There a Society of Psychopaths?

2min

Are You Taking a Penalty to Put Your Team Through?

3min

Penalty Shootout

3min

You Don't Get a Fighter Pilot Without an Ego, Okay?

2min

Is There a Choice Between Practicality and Precision?

2min

Are We All Born With Forks and a World of Soup?

4min

10.

The Color Spectrum Is a Great Example of a Pattern Identification Instinct

4min

11.

Hoarders

4min

12.

The Relationship Between Cognitive Complexity and Cognitive Closure

4min

13.

Tribal Epistemology

3min

14.

Flipnosis - My Roots

4min

15.

The Man Who Said, Is a Psychopath?

2min

16.

Persuasion - How to Get Someone to Like You

2min

17.

Persuasion and Super Categories - What Are They?

4min

18.

What Makes a Great Barrister?

3min

19.

The Purity Spira

2min

20.

Is There a Greater Prejudice Against People of the Same Race?

4min

21.

The Ability to Change Your Accent

4min

22.

How to Build a Restaurant Menu and Advertisements

6min

23.

The Rise of Social Media Changed the Way We Judge People

2min

24.

The Real Dr. Kev - DR for Dr. At the Real Dr Kev

2min

Dr Kevin Dutton is a psychologist, author, and elite performance consultant whose research focuses on persuasion and social influence, psychopathic personality and elite cognition.

Psychopaths get a bad rap. Perhaps understandably. They have a branding problem to say the least. But there are some personality traits like emotional control, focus, drive and single-mindedness that elite performers can model off of psychopaths to improve their effectiveness.

Expect to learn how psychopathy exists at all, why teams kicking second in a penalty shootout have a 30% greater chance of missing, why psychopath pilots in world war 2 didn't make it home even though they won their fights, how different accents can be more prejudiced against than different races, why splitting the world into categories creates a foundation for huge biases to occur and much more...

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