#552 - Dr Kevin Dutton - Understanding The Wisdom Of Psychopaths
Nov 14, 2022
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Dr. Kevin Dutton, a psychologist and elite performance consultant, explores the captivating traits of psychopathy and their surprising benefits in high-pressure environments like sports and aviation. He discusses how emotional control and focus can enhance effectiveness, and why penalty shootout timing affects success rates. The conversation delves into biases stemming from categorization, the influence of accents on social perception, and the dynamics of tribalism in today’s digital age. Dutton's insights offer a fresh perspective on misunderstood traits and their applications.
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...