The Importance of Nuance, Bias, and Becoming with David McRaney

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David McRaney is a psychologist, journalist, and author. In this episode David and I discuss:

• The biases that plague our thinking 
• The importance of nuance
• Psilocybin and the default mode network of the brain
• Sam Harris
• Free Will
• First Principal Thinking
• The Placebo Effect
• The Fear of Social Death
• Being yourself vs fitting in
• Stoicism
• The backfire effect
• How asking for favors makes people like you more
• Mood following action
• Becoming

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