Understanding The Wisdom Of Psychopaths - Dr Kevin Dutton | Modern Wisdom Podcast 552

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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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00:00 Intro
03:13 Why Does Psychopathy Exist?
10:05 Psychology of Penalty Shootouts
18:01 The Human Ability to Categorise
28:13 Lessons on Narrow Focus from Hoarders
38:55 Kevin’s Studies of Conmen
47:30 The Evolution of Super-Categories
55:49 Why a Different Accent Evokes Prejudice
1:02:13 How Brains Conflate Simplicity with Truth
1:11:33 Where to Find Dr Dutton

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