WEBVTT 00:00:34.090 --> 00:00:37.890 So I've spoken about nice guys as covert bitches. 00:00:37.969 --> 00:00:40.450 I want to shed light on another type of bitch. 00:00:40.969 --> 00:00:44.409 It's the arrogant dumb bitch. I feel the need 00:00:44.409 --> 00:00:46.729 to call out this particular type of bitch because 00:00:46.729 --> 00:00:49.750 these bitches are often put in positions to make 00:00:49.750 --> 00:00:53.590 decisions that does real harm to the rest of 00:00:53.590 --> 00:00:56.890 society. Who am I talking about here? It's honestly 00:00:56.890 --> 00:00:59.270 a range of people, but essentially these are 00:00:59.270 --> 00:01:02.560 the ones that claim to be experts. in an area 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:04.719 and speak on issues that they have no business 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:09.280 speaking on. The ones that either don't have 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:11.799 the self -awareness or don't care that they are 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:14.640 wrong. But they don't necessarily need to be 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:16.819 claiming to be experts. It's honestly just anyone 00:01:16.819 --> 00:01:19.319 who can't acknowledge their mistakes, either 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:21.379 because they're too dumb to realize they're wrong, 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:24.340 or they just don't care because it benefits them 00:01:24.340 --> 00:01:28.230 to double down on something false. What's hard 00:01:28.230 --> 00:01:30.370 about this group of bitches is that they come 00:01:30.370 --> 00:01:33.769 in so many flavors. Joe Rogan, for instance, 00:01:34.049 --> 00:01:37.030 I think, is this type of bitch. He says a bunch 00:01:37.030 --> 00:01:39.409 of dumb shit that is completely uninformed or 00:01:39.409 --> 00:01:42.010 provides a platform for a bunch of dumbasses 00:01:42.010 --> 00:01:45.569 saying dumb shit, which is annoying, but honestly, 00:01:45.709 --> 00:01:48.069 they have the right to do so, right? You can 00:01:48.069 --> 00:01:50.069 say whatever you want. It's a free country. I'm 00:01:50.069 --> 00:01:51.730 not going to stop somebody from creating a podcast 00:01:51.730 --> 00:01:54.810 and just going off. I mean, I go off whenever 00:01:54.810 --> 00:01:58.799 I feel like on my own podcast. What I see, though, 00:01:58.939 --> 00:02:02.879 is someone who isn't interested in actually getting 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:05.659 to the truth and just entertains any dumb fucking 00:02:05.659 --> 00:02:08.680 idea as being on par with any properly informed 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:13.580 idea. It's not the mistakes that are being made 00:02:13.580 --> 00:02:16.719 or the false beliefs so much as the reckless 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.719 disregard for any standard of critical thinking 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:23.199 that makes him a dumb bitch. If he was trying 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:26.439 to get at the truth and cared enough to be a 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:28.300 bit more careful about what he said or who he 00:02:28.300 --> 00:02:30.659 brought into the platform, I'd probably have 00:02:30.659 --> 00:02:33.479 no problem with them. People make mistakes. They 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:36.360 believe false things. They make errors in critical 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:40.699 thinking and judgment. It's all part of just 00:02:40.699 --> 00:02:44.830 being a human, right? Just not having any standard 00:02:44.830 --> 00:02:48.610 for truth is just dumb bitch shit. I know he 00:02:48.610 --> 00:02:50.889 doesn't have any standard because of what he 00:02:50.889 --> 00:02:53.409 says. Sorry, not because of what he says, but 00:02:53.409 --> 00:02:56.270 by the way he responds to criticisms about his 00:02:56.270 --> 00:02:58.710 podcast. He doesn't bother to listen to any of 00:02:58.710 --> 00:03:01.409 it. In fact, I don't think like there's so many 00:03:01.409 --> 00:03:03.289 times when he says some dumb shit where it's 00:03:03.289 --> 00:03:05.509 like it could have just easily been fact checked 00:03:05.509 --> 00:03:08.389 just with like a 10 second Google search. It 00:03:08.389 --> 00:03:10.110 doesn't take much. Like, I'm not holding him 00:03:10.110 --> 00:03:13.949 to some high standard of truth or critical thinking. 00:03:14.110 --> 00:03:16.509 It's just like, just do your basic research, 00:03:16.629 --> 00:03:18.210 right? Like, the most basic kind of research, 00:03:18.370 --> 00:03:21.530 okay? The fact that you just genuinely dismiss 00:03:21.530 --> 00:03:26.090 any of the critiques that come your way or don't 00:03:26.090 --> 00:03:28.530 even bother to correct yourself, like, that's 00:03:28.530 --> 00:03:30.789 what dumb bitches do. They double down on their 00:03:30.789 --> 00:03:34.919 stupidity. But this isn't the only shape that 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:36.879 this particular type of bitch comes in, right? 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:40.759 Many very intelligent people, at least on paper, 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.599 with their degrees and awards, can also be this 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:47.199 type of dumb bitch. If any one of you have been 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:49.960 a part of academia, especially at a prestigious 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:53.340 research college, at the graduate level or higher 00:03:53.340 --> 00:03:55.460 especially, you'll know exactly what I'm talking 00:03:55.460 --> 00:03:58.289 about. There are people, again, I'm not going 00:03:58.289 --> 00:04:01.349 to paint a broad brush and say this is everybody 00:04:01.349 --> 00:04:03.889 in academia, but there is a significant, noticeable, 00:04:04.110 --> 00:04:06.770 significant number of people in academia, but 00:04:06.770 --> 00:04:10.449 also I've found in politics and management, who 00:04:10.449 --> 00:04:13.530 got there with some skills and work. So they 00:04:13.530 --> 00:04:16.269 put in the work, they have some skills. In the 00:04:16.269 --> 00:04:18.490 least, they know how to talk to people well enough 00:04:18.490 --> 00:04:20.670 to get those positions, but most likely they 00:04:20.670 --> 00:04:23.029 also receive various degrees, certificates, awards, 00:04:23.389 --> 00:04:26.230 whatever other accolades they took credit for 00:04:26.230 --> 00:04:28.810 to help them get into these positions. So they 00:04:28.810 --> 00:04:30.529 aren't complete idiots. I don't want to just 00:04:30.529 --> 00:04:33.149 say that they're, you know, like Joe Rogan status, 00:04:33.389 --> 00:04:36.829 dumb, right? They're not that. So then what makes 00:04:36.829 --> 00:04:39.189 them a bitch? It's when they go off the deep 00:04:39.189 --> 00:04:43.069 end and speak outside of their area of expertise. 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.759 Or become overly confident in their belief because 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:48.819 they have all these fancy degrees and awards 00:04:48.819 --> 00:04:51.759 to show for it. It's when their head gets too 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:56.259 big for their body and they shift away from just 00:04:56.259 --> 00:04:59.980 a dude who has some ideas to just being a complete 00:04:59.980 --> 00:05:04.759 bitch. Why does this happen? I honestly don't 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:09.060 know, but I have some suspicions as to why people 00:05:09.060 --> 00:05:11.920 don't just stick to their lane and just say like, 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:14.819 hey, I'm an expert in this. small subset in this 00:05:14.819 --> 00:05:19.120 area this is all i know and what i know is what 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.959 i know and i don't know anything else with much 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:24.860 certainty i don't know why people just start 00:05:24.860 --> 00:05:28.100 to like it's like their their idea that this 00:05:28.100 --> 00:05:30.680 idea that they know something makes them feel 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:32.860 like they know more than they really do right 00:05:32.860 --> 00:05:35.819 i don't know exactly why this happens but i have 00:05:35.819 --> 00:05:37.720 some suspicions i'm gonna just lay out lay out 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:40.759 some of them i don't again i'm not an expert 00:05:41.149 --> 00:05:43.569 Somebody go ahead and look into it and tell me 00:05:43.569 --> 00:05:46.750 what the accurate picture is as to why this happens. 00:05:46.889 --> 00:05:48.810 Maybe it just varies, right? For each person, 00:05:48.850 --> 00:05:51.310 it's a little bit different, okay? But here's 00:05:51.310 --> 00:05:52.910 some suspicions that I want to kind of throw 00:05:52.910 --> 00:05:56.189 out there. See what you think, okay? For one, 00:05:56.350 --> 00:05:58.670 I imagine if you spent your life on some idea 00:05:58.670 --> 00:06:02.310 and promoting it, you're so committed to it that 00:06:02.310 --> 00:06:04.329 acknowledging you're wrong would be devastating 00:06:04.329 --> 00:06:07.839 to your sense of self. OK, you've poured yourself 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:12.339 into some, let's say, research area. And I imagine 00:06:12.339 --> 00:06:14.459 it's hard to acknowledge that all that research, 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:17.839 all that work was in vain. That sucks. That sucks. 00:06:18.019 --> 00:06:21.240 So I can empathize with that. But unfortunately, 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:23.839 if you're going to be in denial about it instead 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:26.259 of dealing with the fact that maybe, you know, 00:06:26.259 --> 00:06:30.180 your life's work might not have been as fruitful 00:06:30.180 --> 00:06:34.860 as you want it to be or you hoped it to be. If 00:06:34.860 --> 00:06:36.420 you can't acknowledge it, if you can't learn 00:06:36.420 --> 00:06:40.019 to deal with reality, just face it head on, then 00:06:40.019 --> 00:06:43.120 you're a bitch. I get that it's hard. Like, look, 00:06:43.180 --> 00:06:45.459 not being a bitch is really hard. It's super 00:06:45.459 --> 00:06:49.180 hard. It's easy to be a bitch. A bitch route 00:06:49.180 --> 00:06:51.180 is the easy way to go. It's hard to be a man. 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.819 It's hard to be a real man. So I imagine this 00:06:53.819 --> 00:06:55.899 might be one reason is, look, you might have 00:06:55.899 --> 00:06:58.759 good reason to be committed to something that 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:04.040 you believe in. And there might be investments 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:07.800 of your time, energy, your heart that you put 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:12.519 into it. So it sucks. But again, reality is reality. 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.139 You need to learn to deal with it and to navigate 00:07:15.139 --> 00:07:17.860 through that reality once you're faced with it. 00:07:17.899 --> 00:07:20.839 So I don't know what it's going to take for you 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:24.500 to go ahead and acknowledge it. Maybe there's 00:07:24.500 --> 00:07:26.339 an out for you. Maybe there's an alternative. 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:30.180 Some way you could turn all this investment that 00:07:30.180 --> 00:07:32.620 you put in into something else. I don't know. 00:07:33.540 --> 00:07:36.079 But what I do know is that the more you're in 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:39.019 denial of it, the more of a bitch you are. That's 00:07:39.019 --> 00:07:45.259 all I know. Another reason that you might go 00:07:45.259 --> 00:07:49.670 down this route to becoming a bitch. is that 00:07:49.670 --> 00:07:52.649 you bought into some praise and accolades that 00:07:52.649 --> 00:07:55.269 you received, whether it was accurate or not. 00:07:55.509 --> 00:07:57.790 Maybe people gassed you up for whatever reason. 00:07:58.870 --> 00:08:01.410 From spending 10 minutes on ChatGPT, I never 00:08:01.410 --> 00:08:03.949 wanted to go on ChatGPT again because this is 00:08:03.949 --> 00:08:06.810 kind of what it felt like to be on ChatGPT. It 00:08:06.810 --> 00:08:09.209 felt like ChatGPT was gassing me up. It's not 00:08:09.209 --> 00:08:11.029 just that they would just report information 00:08:11.029 --> 00:08:14.639 that I was asking for. You know, if I was throwing 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:17.259 out some ideas, then Chad GPT would gas me up 00:08:17.259 --> 00:08:19.259 and be like, oh, it's a great idea. That's very 00:08:19.259 --> 00:08:20.860 insightful of you. Like that kind of shit, right? 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:25.100 So then, you know, if you hear a lot of this 00:08:25.100 --> 00:08:28.199 from people, from Chad GPT, from wherever else, 00:08:28.259 --> 00:08:31.779 okay, you hear it enough, you might start buying 00:08:31.779 --> 00:08:33.460 into it. You might, your head might get big. 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:34.659 You might think that you're bigger and better 00:08:34.659 --> 00:08:37.519 than you really are. If you don't surround yourself 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:40.299 with good friends who call you out on bullshit, 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:43.200 who will... check you when you get out of line, 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.600 then you have people gassing you up. You're going 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:49.100 to get an overinflated sense of self. That's 00:08:49.100 --> 00:08:51.759 going to turn you into a bitch because you're 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:53.519 not going to see the mistakes you're making. 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:55.100 You're not going to have people pointing them 00:08:55.100 --> 00:08:59.960 out to you. Like this happens, right? And I also 00:08:59.960 --> 00:09:01.899 understand that this happens a lot as you gain 00:09:01.899 --> 00:09:06.299 fame, wealth, things like this. People will come 00:09:06.299 --> 00:09:08.100 around you. They might want something from you. 00:09:08.379 --> 00:09:11.399 And one way to kind of get that done is by gassing 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:13.460 you up and then saying all these wonderful things 00:09:13.460 --> 00:09:17.340 to you to try to butter you up. Always be suspicious 00:09:17.340 --> 00:09:18.720 of those people because they're probably going 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:20.620 to slowly turn you into a little bitch, okay? 00:09:21.740 --> 00:09:27.179 Again, what's keeping you from, you know, becoming 00:09:27.179 --> 00:09:30.100 a real man instead of a bitch is not so much 00:09:30.100 --> 00:09:33.860 that you make mistakes or not. Everybody makes 00:09:33.860 --> 00:09:37.000 mistakes. It's that you have a hard time admitting 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.539 that you're wrong when you do make a mistake 00:09:39.539 --> 00:09:43.500 and you don't revise your beliefs to match what's 00:09:43.500 --> 00:09:46.320 actually more likely to be true. Part of this 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:49.860 is going to be that you don't have the checks 00:09:49.860 --> 00:09:54.940 around you or you are addicted to this sort of 00:09:54.940 --> 00:09:58.600 praise from other people. that you don't want 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:03.539 to hear the criticisms or the alternative viewpoints 00:10:03.539 --> 00:10:06.360 or people who disagree with you. You might not 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:08.720 want to hear it. And the more you don't allow 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:11.960 yourself to stay exposed to that, the more you're 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:15.220 going to make yourself a bitch. Another suspicion 00:10:15.220 --> 00:10:18.639 I have is that the very reason you sought out 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:21.960 recognition and degrees and whatever the accolades 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:25.570 are, Whatever drove you to try to be successful 00:10:25.570 --> 00:10:29.409 in this respect, it probably already stems from 00:10:29.409 --> 00:10:31.570 some sort of insecurity you have. You were probably 00:10:31.570 --> 00:10:34.230 already an insecure bitch, and you thought that 00:10:34.230 --> 00:10:35.769 accomplishing all these things would make you 00:10:35.769 --> 00:10:39.429 look and feel less like a bitch. And I'm sorry 00:10:39.429 --> 00:10:42.990 to bring it to you, but like I said before, the 00:10:42.990 --> 00:10:45.230 fact that you aren't directly addressing your 00:10:45.230 --> 00:10:49.450 insecurity and instead trying to mask your insecurities 00:10:49.450 --> 00:10:52.360 with all these accolades means that... Well, 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:54.539 that's right. You're still a bitch. That's what 00:10:54.539 --> 00:10:57.100 you are. If you're a bitch for these reasons, 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:59.039 then I'm guessing you're probably a bitch across 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.220 the board, not just in academic settings or in 00:11:02.220 --> 00:11:05.539 work settings, right? Insecurities can't be contained 00:11:05.539 --> 00:11:10.860 in that way. I'm not saying that you are, but 00:11:10.860 --> 00:11:12.940 I would not be surprised if you were the type 00:11:12.940 --> 00:11:16.139 to be resentful towards some younger graduate 00:11:16.139 --> 00:11:19.240 students or people who work underneath you who 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:22.919 critique what it is that you do. You're probably 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:25.500 the type to use your power and influence to feed 00:11:25.500 --> 00:11:28.559 your own insecurities so that you feel less like 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:32.299 a bitch when the truth is that it's your bitch 00:11:32.299 --> 00:11:35.360 -ass ego that's leading you to belittle and control 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.720 and manipulate others. I mean, I don't know. 00:11:37.779 --> 00:11:40.220 I'm just saying. I wouldn't be surprised. I'm 00:11:40.220 --> 00:11:41.759 not saying this is exactly what you do. I'm saying 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.399 I wouldn't be surprised because bitches be bitches 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:47.799 wherever they go. If you have these insecurities, 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:49.379 they're going to show in some form or fashion, 00:11:49.500 --> 00:11:54.090 okay? But if you sought out this kind of recognition, 00:11:54.330 --> 00:11:57.429 if you were trying to puff yourself up and then 00:11:57.429 --> 00:11:59.649 make yourself feel big because you're feeling 00:11:59.649 --> 00:12:01.889 insecure about something for whatever reason, 00:12:01.929 --> 00:12:04.210 and instead of dealing with the insecurity, you 00:12:04.210 --> 00:12:06.610 decide to try to use these accolades as a way 00:12:06.610 --> 00:12:10.470 to make yourself feel less insecure, then you're 00:12:10.470 --> 00:12:12.690 probably still the same bitch that you were before 00:12:12.690 --> 00:12:16.100 you received all these accolades. Okay. Are you 00:12:16.100 --> 00:12:17.919 getting the picture here? Look, like I said, 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:19.720 it's not just academia. I was using that as one 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:21.659 example. It's everywhere. It's any successful 00:12:21.659 --> 00:12:24.840 bitch. Successful in the sense of like, you know, 00:12:24.899 --> 00:12:26.980 I don't know, public accolades or something, 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:31.019 awards, degrees, things like that. Especially 00:12:31.019 --> 00:12:34.179 motherfuckers who love the public eye. It's pretty 00:12:34.179 --> 00:12:36.000 common out there, right? So actors, musicians, 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:39.820 politicians, these areas are just swarming with 00:12:39.820 --> 00:12:43.279 this type of bitch. Even in the teaching profession, 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:46.360 I've seen a lot of bitches like this. These are 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:48.460 the teachers who make the teaching all about 00:12:48.460 --> 00:12:52.379 themselves, and they feel a great sense of joy 00:12:52.379 --> 00:12:54.480 in receiving a bunch of awards for their teaching, 00:12:54.580 --> 00:12:57.299 or I don't know what, like going on TED Talk 00:12:57.299 --> 00:12:59.539 and then having everybody talk about, gush over 00:12:59.539 --> 00:13:02.200 how wonderful they were. I don't know what the 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:04.620 deal is, right? It's all over, and it makes sense. 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:07.399 If you're insecure and you need to fill that 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:09.360 insecurity by getting a bunch of recognition, 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:12.120 then clearly you're going to go to places. that 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:14.639 give you that sort of recognition. Maybe even 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:18.620 people or communities that are willing to exploit 00:13:18.620 --> 00:13:21.639 you for your need for this sort of recognition. 00:13:22.539 --> 00:13:24.899 I just use academia as an example because I think 00:13:24.899 --> 00:13:29.440 people can already see much of the bitch -assetry 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.740 easily in these other fields. People often talk 00:13:31.740 --> 00:13:34.600 about politicians being spineless bitches, and 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:37.659 I think they're mostly accurate about most of 00:13:37.659 --> 00:13:40.240 these politicians probably. Like I said, I don't 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:41.740 know any of them individually, but if I were 00:13:41.740 --> 00:13:44.059 to start digging around to their personal lives, 00:13:44.179 --> 00:13:46.399 I wouldn't be surprised if I found a good chunk 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:49.539 of them to be this type of bitch. But maybe people 00:13:49.539 --> 00:13:51.460 don't see it. So, you know, again, it's just 00:13:51.460 --> 00:13:53.960 anywhere where people are looking for some sort 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:56.580 of recognition. I'm always suspicious that they 00:13:56.580 --> 00:13:58.220 are trying to cover up some sort of insecurity. 00:13:59.960 --> 00:14:03.139 So, yeah, generally just assume if you like the 00:14:03.139 --> 00:14:05.600 spotlight, if you revel in it, if you seek it 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.740 out, you're probably a bitch. That's probably, 00:14:07.820 --> 00:14:11.720 I think, a good assumption. And just because 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:14.179 you're intelligent or do things that help the 00:14:14.179 --> 00:14:16.500 world, like you're given to charity all over 00:14:16.500 --> 00:14:19.240 the place or you pass good policy, doesn't mean 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:21.419 you're not a bitch. You're just a bitch that 00:14:21.419 --> 00:14:23.539 does good things because you want recognition 00:14:23.539 --> 00:14:28.299 like a bitch. Okay? Oh, God, let me pause for 00:14:28.299 --> 00:14:29.440 a second. I feel like I've been saying bitch 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:31.639 a whole lot over the last 10 minutes. Now I feel 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:33.899 like I'm going to become a bitch myself by speaking 00:14:33.899 --> 00:14:39.820 it into existence. Ugh. Okay, short break. So... 00:14:39.820 --> 00:14:49.379 See? It's trying to escape me. So, the point 00:14:49.379 --> 00:14:52.720 holds. Just because you accomplished some stuff, 00:14:52.899 --> 00:14:56.399 found success, are actually capable in some area, 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:58.899 none of this changes whether or not you're a 00:14:58.899 --> 00:15:01.279 bitch. If you're doing it for the wrong reasons, 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.720 like to fill your own insecurities or if you're 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.399 moving with an overinflated sense of self, if 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:08.980 you make it about yourself and your own greatness, 00:15:09.179 --> 00:15:14.700 you're a bitch. Period. End of story. Okay? I 00:15:14.700 --> 00:15:17.220 can't leave this discussion without pointing 00:15:17.220 --> 00:15:20.200 out a particular special subcategory of this 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:25.220 type of bitch. This is a place, this is a type 00:15:25.220 --> 00:15:28.080 of bitch that has a special place in my heart. 00:15:28.830 --> 00:15:32.809 namely that I hate them with a passion, and that's 00:15:32.809 --> 00:15:35.570 the social media self -proclaimed expert influencer 00:15:35.570 --> 00:15:41.490 bitch. I recently got into economics, finance, 00:15:41.710 --> 00:15:43.330 tax law, that kind of stuff, just for my own 00:15:43.330 --> 00:15:46.970 edification. I just started digging into it. 00:15:48.210 --> 00:15:51.029 But I also see this with regards to the educational 00:15:51.029 --> 00:15:54.090 sector as well, especially people giving advice 00:15:54.090 --> 00:15:56.169 on how to get into competitive colleges and so 00:15:56.169 --> 00:15:59.120 on. I was actually personally seeking out some 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.039 legit experts just because I was just curious 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.399 if there was some podcast or something I could 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:07.820 listen to that might be of interest to me and 00:16:07.820 --> 00:16:10.299 was just curious about thoughts from experts 00:16:10.299 --> 00:16:16.399 in this area, economists, attorneys, finance 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:20.679 types, and so on. But soon enough, my feed was 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:22.820 flooded with dumb bitches with no real expertise 00:16:22.820 --> 00:16:25.559 in anything. trying to tell me that they had 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:29.159 this secret answer to success, which they'll 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:31.460 share with me if I just pay them some money. 00:16:31.700 --> 00:16:33.360 Of course, they were trying to sell me something, 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:36.419 right? Okay, look, you dumb bitch. I'm not falling 00:16:36.419 --> 00:16:39.200 for your scam. I don't know. Maybe you really 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:42.500 believe what you preach and that what you have 00:16:42.500 --> 00:16:45.840 to offer is actually doing some good. I'm skeptical, 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:49.570 but... You know, I honestly believe that a lot 00:16:49.570 --> 00:16:52.789 of bitches believe the crazy dumb shit that they 00:16:52.789 --> 00:16:55.950 are preaching, even if it's completely wrong. 00:16:56.970 --> 00:16:59.549 You can buy into your own bullshit, right? You 00:16:59.549 --> 00:17:00.889 realize this, right? Like, you can buy into your 00:17:00.889 --> 00:17:03.289 own bullshit. Just because you believe in yourself 00:17:03.289 --> 00:17:05.589 doesn't make you right. And your overconfidence 00:17:05.589 --> 00:17:07.829 in your own shit makes me think that you're a 00:17:07.829 --> 00:17:11.230 dumb bitch. Because honestly, I don't know where 00:17:11.230 --> 00:17:14.519 your overconfidence is coming from. Look, I know 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:17.880 experts, real experts in their fields, right? 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:20.900 They're level -headed and they acknowledge just 00:17:20.900 --> 00:17:23.980 how much they don't know, right? They're not 00:17:23.980 --> 00:17:26.500 even that confident, right? I think the people 00:17:26.500 --> 00:17:28.519 that I've met that I believe are genuine experts 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:31.119 that are very knowledgeable in their area, because 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.839 they're so knowledgeable, they also are aware 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:35.740 that there's a lot of information that they don't 00:17:35.740 --> 00:17:37.960 have. A lot of predictions that they know will 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.460 probably be wrong because it's not an easy thing 00:17:41.460 --> 00:17:45.170 to do, right? You know why they're not confident? 00:17:45.809 --> 00:17:48.529 It's because they know just how much they don't 00:17:48.529 --> 00:17:51.549 know. So overconfident motherfuckers tend to 00:17:51.549 --> 00:17:54.109 be the dumb bitches that don't know that they're 00:17:54.109 --> 00:17:58.210 dumb. They're blind to their dumbness. So don't 00:17:58.210 --> 00:18:00.269 look to them for any sort of guidance. They're 00:18:00.269 --> 00:18:02.950 probably wrong. I'm thinking like Andrew Tate. 00:18:03.730 --> 00:18:05.690 I'm thinking all these financial advisors on 00:18:05.690 --> 00:18:09.089 social media who only have real expertise in 00:18:09.089 --> 00:18:12.759 some narrow subset of finance. like in real estate 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:14.440 or something, but then they give general like 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:16.440 finance advice or investing advice. She's like, 00:18:16.500 --> 00:18:18.819 you dumb bitch. You don't know any of this stuff, 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:21.420 right? And especially the dumb fucks who graduated 00:18:21.420 --> 00:18:23.660 from competitive colleges like Stanford or Harvard 00:18:23.660 --> 00:18:26.079 and are now making money trying to sell you some 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:27.839 program claiming that they have some deep insight 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:31.359 into college applications or how to study effectively 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.599 or some other dumb shit that they don't really 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:36.019 know anything about. You dumb bitches. Like, 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:38.680 look. Were you ever on the admissions committee 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:42.220 or even made decisions on, like, even a scholarship 00:18:42.220 --> 00:18:44.559 committee or any of these places where you were 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:46.400 on the other side of it where you had to look 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:48.460 through a bunch of different student applications 00:18:48.460 --> 00:18:51.579 and then make decisions about who gets, you know, 00:18:51.579 --> 00:18:54.420 these opportunities and who doesn't? Do you even 00:18:54.420 --> 00:18:55.680 know anything about learning science? Did you, 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:57.779 like, actually pour through the range of empirical 00:18:57.779 --> 00:19:00.660 research in this area, study it thoroughly like 00:19:00.660 --> 00:19:03.640 the real experts actually do? I doubt it because 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:05.240 you're saying some dumb shit that doesn't align 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:08.890 with the research. you dumb bitch. Okay. And 00:19:08.890 --> 00:19:10.569 it's the same thing in the finance sector, right? 00:19:10.630 --> 00:19:13.630 Like a lot of the people like, look, I figured 00:19:13.630 --> 00:19:16.910 this out that for most people, finance is fairly 00:19:16.910 --> 00:19:19.730 simple, right? Like don't spend more than what 00:19:19.730 --> 00:19:23.170 you have work on, you know, getting a better 00:19:23.170 --> 00:19:26.849 income, like higher income, you know, investing, 00:19:26.910 --> 00:19:29.369 like you probably don't know better than the 00:19:29.369 --> 00:19:31.750 experts. So don't try to beat out the experts. 00:19:32.349 --> 00:19:36.549 Like, It's fairly straightforward. If you stay 00:19:36.549 --> 00:19:40.029 in your lane and not go and think that you know 00:19:40.029 --> 00:19:44.230 more than you do, then you're usually fine. But 00:19:44.230 --> 00:19:46.190 a lot of times people are trying to give you 00:19:46.190 --> 00:19:48.730 some secret sauce that is supposed to lead to 00:19:48.730 --> 00:19:52.049 wealth. Honestly, it sounds more like a scam 00:19:52.049 --> 00:19:54.569 to me. Look, either you're a scam artist and 00:19:54.569 --> 00:19:56.470 you know it, which makes you a selfish bitch, 00:19:56.630 --> 00:20:00.609 or you believe your hype, your own hype, which 00:20:00.609 --> 00:20:02.769 makes you a dumb bitch. Whichever way you cut 00:20:02.769 --> 00:20:06.119 it, You're a bitch, okay? And what's worse is 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:08.079 that you're doing real harm. That's my concern, 00:20:08.220 --> 00:20:11.480 right? My concern is that it's not just your 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.480 bitchness contained within you and you deal with 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:16.579 your own bitchness. This is part of the problem 00:20:16.579 --> 00:20:20.440 with bitch assetry, right? It's like an infection 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:23.839 on a wound that just like spreads and it just 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:26.180 infects all the things around it, right? That's 00:20:26.180 --> 00:20:28.259 my concern is that it's not going to be contained 00:20:28.259 --> 00:20:30.200 within you. It's going to negatively impact people 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:33.190 who don't know any better. And maybe can't know 00:20:33.190 --> 00:20:35.190 any better because no one called you out on your 00:20:35.190 --> 00:20:36.809 bitch ass. And so they just go along with your 00:20:36.809 --> 00:20:40.829 bitch assetry. Oh, shit, I'm getting worked up. 00:20:41.130 --> 00:20:45.329 So many dumb bitches. Look, remember in the previous 00:20:45.329 --> 00:20:48.170 episode when I said, you know, we need to distinguish. 00:20:49.190 --> 00:20:51.130 This is like several episodes ago. But like I 00:20:51.130 --> 00:20:52.930 said, we need to distinguish real value from 00:20:52.930 --> 00:20:56.789 perceived value. Isn't most of marketing just 00:20:56.789 --> 00:20:59.940 trying to pump up perceived value? That's what 00:20:59.940 --> 00:21:03.039 these social media influencer types and the game 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:05.240 that they play feels like. It feels like you're 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:07.700 trying to pump up your own perceived value without 00:21:07.700 --> 00:21:10.519 actually doing the work to increase your real 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:13.180 value. Now, there are some who do put in the 00:21:13.180 --> 00:21:16.900 work. I appreciate them, right? But they are 00:21:16.900 --> 00:21:20.299 far and few between. They're probably much more 00:21:20.299 --> 00:21:22.960 often from what I've seen in my feeds, more often 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:24.819 than not, it's just a bunch of dumb bitches. 00:21:25.609 --> 00:21:27.950 that don't have any real value, that hasn't put 00:21:27.950 --> 00:21:30.450 in the work to doing their homework, doing the 00:21:30.450 --> 00:21:33.809 research, you know, doing the hard work to really 00:21:33.809 --> 00:21:36.690 develop some sort of skill set. All y 'all is 00:21:36.690 --> 00:21:39.589 just bitches. That's what you are, okay? Now, 00:21:39.589 --> 00:21:42.089 I'm guessing this is part of the reason that 00:21:42.089 --> 00:21:44.750 so many people are not keen on experts because 00:21:44.750 --> 00:21:47.009 everybody like this claims to be an expert and 00:21:47.009 --> 00:21:51.130 they just are really scam artists. Now, look, 00:21:51.210 --> 00:21:56.059 I value expertise. I don't want people to just 00:21:56.059 --> 00:22:00.640 shit on experts across the board. I'll be clear 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:03.700 with you, at least for me, I'm not an expert 00:22:03.700 --> 00:22:07.400 on most things in life. And I need to rely on 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:09.000 the expertise of others to make it through life. 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:12.619 I am in no position, for instance, to question 00:22:12.619 --> 00:22:15.400 all these climate scientists on climate change 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:16.839 because I don't know enough about the topic. 00:22:17.720 --> 00:22:21.279 And I've read up on quite a bit of it, but I'm 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:24.259 definitely not an expert in that area. Same for 00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:26.000 when I'm deciding on like a medical treatment, 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:28.740 right? Like, look, I go to a doctor or a string 00:22:28.740 --> 00:22:31.359 of doctors, get multiple opinions to try to get 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:33.220 as many expert opinions on this as possible. 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:35.539 I don't trust my own judgment on it because I 00:22:35.539 --> 00:22:38.240 don't, you know, I don't know enough about this 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:39.839 stuff, right? I didn't go to med school. I don't 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:42.259 know. I don't know enough about science or medical 00:22:42.259 --> 00:22:44.680 science to know what the right course of treatment 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:48.970 is, right? So at the end of the day, my decision 00:22:48.970 --> 00:22:51.970 will probably be some product of, you know, some 00:22:51.970 --> 00:22:55.170 amalgamation of these expert opinions, not my 00:22:55.170 --> 00:22:57.769 own intuitions. Even something as simple as fixing 00:22:57.769 --> 00:23:01.069 a car, I'd probably be, you know, like wouldn't 00:23:01.069 --> 00:23:03.009 know what to do. I would need a mechanic to tell 00:23:03.009 --> 00:23:06.230 me exactly what needs to get fixed, right? I 00:23:06.230 --> 00:23:08.690 respect experts who put in the time and mental 00:23:08.690 --> 00:23:11.950 energy to improve their craft. Yet I think many 00:23:11.950 --> 00:23:14.670 are skeptical of experts, and I think for good 00:23:14.670 --> 00:23:18.130 reason. My students are often skeptical of students. 00:23:18.390 --> 00:23:20.769 I teach critical thinking, and we talk a lot 00:23:20.769 --> 00:23:24.750 about when and how we can trust experts. And 00:23:24.750 --> 00:23:26.750 many have this intuitive feeling that all these 00:23:26.750 --> 00:23:28.490 experts are not as intelligent or insightful 00:23:28.490 --> 00:23:32.140 as they make themselves out to be. I could see 00:23:32.140 --> 00:23:34.619 why, like when you have so many people claiming 00:23:34.619 --> 00:23:37.059 to be experts that are really not experts, it 00:23:37.059 --> 00:23:39.339 gets confusing. You can't differentiate one from 00:23:39.339 --> 00:23:41.700 the other. And so you don't know who to trust. 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:44.579 And so your default then becomes, I'm not going 00:23:44.579 --> 00:23:47.859 to trust any of them, right? It's because of 00:23:47.859 --> 00:23:49.900 all these things I've talked about, all these 00:23:49.900 --> 00:23:52.019 dumb bitches that are out there parading around 00:23:52.019 --> 00:23:54.359 calling themselves experts when they're just 00:23:54.359 --> 00:23:56.119 a bunch of scam artists. So I don't blame people 00:23:56.119 --> 00:23:59.400 for being skeptical of experts. If people are 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:02.579 down on experts who don't want to give experts 00:24:02.579 --> 00:24:06.240 their due credit, I could understand why that 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:10.299 is. So it doesn't help to just go ahead and say, 00:24:10.420 --> 00:24:12.720 look, don't trust experts. It doesn't help because, 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:15.680 look, I still need to rely on experts, at least 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:20.000 for me. And it doesn't help to just try to believe 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:22.940 anybody who claims to be an expert. Neither of 00:24:22.940 --> 00:24:25.299 these extremes seem to be a smart way to go. 00:24:25.900 --> 00:24:27.559 So then what can we do about these dumb bitches? 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:29.759 Well, I think it's important not to lump everyone 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:33.940 together. We need to have some tools to differentiate 00:24:33.940 --> 00:24:36.359 between who we can really trust and who we can't. 00:24:36.700 --> 00:24:38.640 Some people are doing really important work, 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:40.759 good work, right? In fact, I think even on my 00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:43.579 website, I promote some of these individuals 00:24:43.579 --> 00:24:46.559 that I think are doing real work, that have done 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:48.619 the work, that are real experts in their area. 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:50.599 I don't necessarily agree with everything they 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:54.319 say if there's some shared areas of expertise, 00:24:56.209 --> 00:24:58.869 Even there, I have a good amount of respect for 00:24:58.869 --> 00:25:00.329 them, and I believe that even when I believe 00:25:00.329 --> 00:25:02.849 they're wrong, they're wrong with good reason. 00:25:02.950 --> 00:25:06.630 They have done the work. They're knowledgeable 00:25:06.630 --> 00:25:10.210 in the area. Experts can disagree on stuff. That's 00:25:10.210 --> 00:25:12.450 pretty normal. Experts don't all agree on everything, 00:25:12.549 --> 00:25:15.970 right? Okay, so what we're looking for are real 00:25:15.970 --> 00:25:18.230 men that put in real hours to improve their craft, 00:25:18.410 --> 00:25:20.769 to provide something of real value, not just 00:25:20.769 --> 00:25:25.039 perceived value. And so I'm going to try to give 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:27.160 you some general principles to follow in making 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:28.900 the distinction, and I hope that it serves you 00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:31.359 well. These are kind of like rules of thumb that 00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:34.319 I follow. It's not perfect, but it at least kind 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:37.579 of gives you some idea of certain red flags to 00:25:37.579 --> 00:25:40.480 kind of look out for. Moments when you're like, 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:42.539 okay, I think I might need to do a deeper dive 00:25:42.539 --> 00:25:44.940 on this person before I could believe any of 00:25:44.940 --> 00:25:47.000 the things that they say, or if I could trust 00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:52.700 their advice, right? Here are some guiding principles 00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:57.019 that I think you can try to follow, okay? First 00:25:57.019 --> 00:26:00.619 off, real experts, they are not overly defensive, 00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:04.839 okay? If you get triggered by someone questioning 00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:06.680 whether or not you're right, you're probably 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:11.160 a bitch, right? And real experts that aren't 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:15.000 bitches wouldn't honestly be offended by your 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:17.589 questioning them. If anything, they'd probably 00:26:17.589 --> 00:26:19.670 geek out and try to explain it to you in a way 00:26:19.670 --> 00:26:24.089 that then makes sense. Why is that? Because real 00:26:24.089 --> 00:26:26.289 experts understand that this stuff is complicated, 00:26:26.390 --> 00:26:29.950 there's a lot of nuance, and that there are elements 00:26:29.950 --> 00:26:32.829 of whatever it is that they believe that are 00:26:32.829 --> 00:26:36.349 open for debate, that it's not set in stone, 00:26:36.390 --> 00:26:39.730 right? Real experts talk to other experts, and 00:26:39.730 --> 00:26:42.599 then so, like, you know. they understand that 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:45.319 this is part of, you know, defending your position 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:48.240 is that you need to explain it. You don't get 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:50.980 defensive and you don't, you know, start going 00:26:50.980 --> 00:26:53.240 off on how you should trust me. I'm the expert. 00:26:53.380 --> 00:26:55.599 You don't know any better. I'm the one who knows 00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:57.220 better. You should just believe whatever it is 00:26:57.220 --> 00:26:59.500 I say. Like, like real experts are not like that. 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:00.960 At least the real experts that aren't bitches. 00:27:01.339 --> 00:27:03.920 What they'll more likely do is they'll try to 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:05.900 give an explanation to help things make sense, 00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:08.849 right? Okay, so that's the first thing I look 00:27:08.849 --> 00:27:10.910 out for. I look out for somebody who's like, 00:27:11.029 --> 00:27:13.569 look, can they handle a critique or an objection, 00:27:13.750 --> 00:27:16.710 or do they just get all worked up and then huff 00:27:16.710 --> 00:27:18.809 and puff about how they should be trusted because 00:27:18.809 --> 00:27:21.529 they're the expert, okay? All right, second thing. 00:27:22.890 --> 00:27:25.710 Experts are generally fairly nuanced in their 00:27:25.710 --> 00:27:28.789 position, and I think they rarely speak with 00:27:28.789 --> 00:27:33.609 much certainty or overconfidence. And this is 00:27:33.609 --> 00:27:36.789 partly because the more you learn about a topic, 00:27:36.930 --> 00:27:39.930 the more you understand the limitations of what 00:27:39.930 --> 00:27:43.410 you know. This is kind of what I've gained from 00:27:43.410 --> 00:27:46.670 going into a PhD program and doing research in 00:27:46.670 --> 00:27:48.910 an area and trying to read everything there is 00:27:48.910 --> 00:27:52.349 on a particular topic. I realized, look, I can't 00:27:52.349 --> 00:27:54.670 actually, I don't know everything. There's just 00:27:54.670 --> 00:27:57.210 too much to read and too many ideas that have 00:27:57.210 --> 00:28:00.069 been floated around by people before me, people 00:28:00.069 --> 00:28:03.500 who are well -regarded. that I'm just not going 00:28:03.500 --> 00:28:05.180 to know everything. There's a lot that I'm not 00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:07.480 going to know, right? And I don't realize how 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:09.640 much I'm not going to know until I actually decide 00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:12.099 I'm going to try to know as much as I can about 00:28:12.099 --> 00:28:14.160 this particular topic. That's when I realize, 00:28:14.259 --> 00:28:16.380 oh, shoot, I feel overwhelmed. There's a lot 00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:19.559 here. I don't get all of it, right? You just 00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:21.400 realize, like, look, there are limitations, right? 00:28:21.859 --> 00:28:25.319 And then you also, because you know so much about 00:28:25.319 --> 00:28:27.420 the different perspectives on the same topic, 00:28:28.009 --> 00:28:30.750 You could also see, you know, all these different 00:28:30.750 --> 00:28:32.829 perspectives and why there might be some areas 00:28:32.829 --> 00:28:35.390 of potential disagreement. You become less certain, 00:28:35.450 --> 00:28:37.410 right? You become less certain because you're 00:28:37.410 --> 00:28:40.069 like, oh, I'm excited for the possibilities of 00:28:40.069 --> 00:28:43.230 what could be, but there are a bunch of objections 00:28:43.230 --> 00:28:46.130 that are well, you know, good points that are 00:28:46.130 --> 00:28:50.329 being made, which should dampen my strength of 00:28:50.329 --> 00:28:52.630 confidence in whatever it is that I think there's 00:28:52.630 --> 00:28:56.349 a real possibility of being true. OK, people 00:28:56.349 --> 00:28:58.109 on the cutting edge of research tend to get excited 00:28:58.109 --> 00:28:59.890 about the possibilities, but they also acknowledge 00:28:59.890 --> 00:29:03.210 that there's still more to learn. Right. It's 00:29:03.210 --> 00:29:06.190 really the salespeople that are gassing up what's 00:29:06.190 --> 00:29:08.630 possible. Like, you know, Elon Musk is kind of 00:29:08.630 --> 00:29:10.890 like this. He always over promises and under 00:29:10.890 --> 00:29:14.529 delivers. Such a bitch. Right. Like, don't believe 00:29:14.529 --> 00:29:17.390 anything Elon says because he's been wrong so 00:29:17.390 --> 00:29:19.509 many times. That should be like proof. Right. 00:29:19.900 --> 00:29:22.400 not to believe anything he says. His timelines 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.779 are always off by a lot, like years, or some 00:29:26.779 --> 00:29:30.059 promises he's just never delivered on. There's 00:29:30.059 --> 00:29:32.819 a reason for it. Salespeople are good at gassing 00:29:32.819 --> 00:29:35.279 you up on what could be true or what's possible. 00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:39.579 Real experts are a lot more cautious because 00:29:39.579 --> 00:29:42.400 they realize, ooh, it's actually a lot harder. 00:29:42.500 --> 00:29:44.180 These problems are much harder to solve than 00:29:44.180 --> 00:29:48.519 the general public gives credit for. Right. So 00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:52.079 experts generally fairly nuanced will not speak 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.579 with much certainty. They'll always try to couch 00:29:56.579 --> 00:30:01.700 what they say with highly possible, likely. Right. 00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:03.299 They're not going to give 100 percent certainty. 00:30:03.299 --> 00:30:05.900 They're not going to sound that confident in 00:30:05.900 --> 00:30:09.779 whatever it is that they're saying. OK, so that's 00:30:09.779 --> 00:30:11.279 the second thing to look out for. Third thing, 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:16.680 experts only speak to a narrow range. of expertise, 00:30:16.779 --> 00:30:21.039 not outside of it, okay? Look, experts are experts 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:22.960 at a particular thing. They're not an expert 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:25.240 in everything. They're experts at very specific 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:29.579 things, okay? I would not ask ethics questions 00:30:29.579 --> 00:30:33.680 to Neil deGrasse Tyson because he's not an expert 00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:37.420 in ethics. He might have an opinion on it, but 00:30:37.420 --> 00:30:41.799 it's a pretty uninformed opinion. I mean, even 00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:43.730 if he's the... did study some of this stuff. 00:30:43.970 --> 00:30:47.390 He's not an expert in ethics. He's just a guy 00:30:47.390 --> 00:30:49.529 who maybe has thought about some stuff and then 00:30:49.529 --> 00:30:52.430 has some opinions on it. He does have expertise. 00:30:52.549 --> 00:30:56.109 I think his expertise is in astrophysics, but 00:30:56.109 --> 00:30:58.910 that's a very narrow field. That's not even all 00:30:58.910 --> 00:31:01.430 of physics, right? So like, look, we need to 00:31:01.430 --> 00:31:05.309 be very careful here. Experts usually will, should 00:31:05.309 --> 00:31:08.730 anyways, a good expert anyways, will probably 00:31:08.730 --> 00:31:11.859 couch their expertise in terms of This is my 00:31:11.859 --> 00:31:14.440 area of expertise. I could speak as an expert 00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:17.299 on this area. I do have opinions on a bunch of 00:31:17.299 --> 00:31:20.059 other stuff, but that's my opinion as a fellow 00:31:20.059 --> 00:31:24.019 human being. It's not as an expert, okay? Look, 00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:26.680 everything I talk about here about what it means 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:28.680 to be a bitch and all this, like defining it 00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:31.099 and drawing these lines, I'm not speaking as 00:31:31.099 --> 00:31:34.640 an expert. I don't have expertise in what it 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:36.559 means to be a man or a bitch. I've said that 00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:38.359 from the very beginning. This is just my opinion 00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:40.789 on stuff, right? If you try to slap me with, 00:31:40.849 --> 00:31:42.430 oh, you're trying to speak as an expert on this 00:31:42.430 --> 00:31:44.890 stuff, it's like, no, it's just a guy with an 00:31:44.890 --> 00:31:48.450 opinion, right? I thought about this stuff a 00:31:48.450 --> 00:31:52.109 lot, but I'm by no means an expert. And you shouldn't 00:31:52.109 --> 00:31:55.730 treat anything I say as the views of an expert 00:31:55.730 --> 00:31:58.569 and then tout it around with any sort of authority. 00:31:58.710 --> 00:32:00.970 You shouldn't do that at all. Form your own damn 00:32:00.970 --> 00:32:03.589 opinions, right? We can have a conversation about 00:32:03.589 --> 00:32:06.349 it. We can help each other, you know, think about 00:32:06.349 --> 00:32:10.750 these things more deeply. I didn't study what 00:32:10.750 --> 00:32:13.009 it means to be a bitch. I didn't do some deep 00:32:13.009 --> 00:32:15.849 dive into this. I just have a bunch of opinions 00:32:15.849 --> 00:32:19.450 from my own experience on stuff. And this is 00:32:19.450 --> 00:32:21.150 part of the reason that you'll see me say, look, 00:32:21.329 --> 00:32:23.690 I'm not an expert in this area. Go talk to a 00:32:23.690 --> 00:32:26.190 sociologist about this. Go talk to a cultural 00:32:26.190 --> 00:32:28.269 anthropologist about that. Go talk to a psychologist 00:32:28.269 --> 00:32:30.329 about this. Look, I'm not an expert in all these 00:32:30.329 --> 00:32:34.210 fields. I will leave it up to the experts to 00:32:34.210 --> 00:32:36.369 go ahead and say something about it. At least 00:32:36.369 --> 00:32:38.269 the areas that I just don't know enough about. 00:32:40.170 --> 00:32:43.650 Okay, so that's the third thing. Okay, fourth 00:32:43.650 --> 00:32:47.009 thing. Experts usually have the backing of other 00:32:47.009 --> 00:32:50.049 experts, right? If you're not an expert in a 00:32:50.049 --> 00:32:54.490 field of study or an industry, you honestly wouldn't 00:32:54.490 --> 00:32:57.390 know who is better or worse because you don't 00:32:57.390 --> 00:33:01.430 know what you should be measuring, right? You 00:33:01.430 --> 00:33:04.670 need to rely on actual experts to give you insight 00:33:04.670 --> 00:33:11.740 on who is respected in the field. So it's kind 00:33:11.740 --> 00:33:14.579 of hard because, like, look, then which experts 00:33:14.579 --> 00:33:16.079 should I trust, right? Like, maybe they're all 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:18.839 on the same campus. It happens. There's biases 00:33:18.839 --> 00:33:22.160 that happens among experts. You know, they might 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:24.619 be all trained in the same school, and so they 00:33:24.619 --> 00:33:26.880 might have the same sort of approach, and that 00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:30.539 approach might just be wrong, okay? But generally, 00:33:30.859 --> 00:33:33.720 you yourself, like, this is, again, this is, 00:33:33.779 --> 00:33:35.259 like, the key part of this is you need to start 00:33:35.259 --> 00:33:37.589 acknowledging your limitations, right? You're 00:33:37.589 --> 00:33:39.309 not an expert, and if you're not an expert, you're 00:33:39.309 --> 00:33:40.809 going to have a hard time identifying who the 00:33:40.809 --> 00:33:44.670 experts are. Degrees and so on could help if 00:33:44.670 --> 00:33:46.730 they're from accredited institutions and so on, 00:33:46.769 --> 00:33:49.390 but again, there's a lot of dumb bitches with 00:33:49.390 --> 00:33:55.490 degrees. You need to rely on some sort of consensus 00:33:55.490 --> 00:33:59.369 among experts about which expert opinions are 00:33:59.369 --> 00:34:04.500 more or less reliable collectively. When I am 00:34:04.500 --> 00:34:06.599 looking at research, when I'm trying to help 00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:09.400 students be better about learning, and I'm reading 00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:12.320 up on the research in this area of learning science, 00:34:12.619 --> 00:34:17.219 it's like a very interdisciplinary field. I don't 00:34:17.219 --> 00:34:21.000 ever rely on just one study or a string of studies 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:24.039 from one particular researcher. And the reason 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:27.199 for it is that there's a potential, even with 00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:32.210 experts, for bias. What I rely instead on is 00:34:32.210 --> 00:34:35.110 collectively where the direction of research 00:34:35.110 --> 00:34:39.210 is going, as in what the results are generally 00:34:39.210 --> 00:34:41.929 pointing to, the general direction that all these 00:34:41.929 --> 00:34:46.409 research projects have been pointing to as the 00:34:46.409 --> 00:34:50.949 stuff that actually works for learning. If you 00:34:50.949 --> 00:34:54.130 rely on one study, you're going to be sorely 00:34:54.130 --> 00:34:57.670 putting yourself in a bad spot. Why? Because... 00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:00.320 there's always going to be outliers. And the 00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:02.599 same thing with experts. There's always going 00:35:02.599 --> 00:35:04.400 to be outliers. There's going to be one or two 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:07.219 experts that say some batshit crazy stuff that 00:35:07.219 --> 00:35:09.360 all the other experts are like, look, yo, you 00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:12.420 got the math wrong. You got the research wrong. 00:35:12.699 --> 00:35:15.880 You're biased and paid for. You're going to get 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:19.199 called out, right? For whatever it is. Usually, 00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:22.519 if you have the minority opinion, I mean, it 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:25.260 could still be correct, but... Even if it's correct, 00:35:25.300 --> 00:35:27.599 it's probably for the wrong reason, or at least 00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:31.619 there's a good chance of it. I usually rely on 00:35:31.619 --> 00:35:34.820 collective decision -making, and that requires 00:35:34.820 --> 00:35:37.440 us to look at the entirety of a field, not just 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:43.039 at one or two experts. Which is why even when 00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:45.320 I'm looking at the social media influencers and 00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:47.719 trying to screen them for people that I think 00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:51.360 are reliable, I won't trust any one of them. 00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:55.500 I'll probably look at a collection of them, right, 00:35:55.639 --> 00:35:57.760 that are not just parroting each other's views, 00:35:57.940 --> 00:36:01.320 that are independent of one another, and try 00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:03.400 to make a decision based off of collectively 00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:06.179 where the areas of agreement and disagreement 00:36:06.179 --> 00:36:10.960 are, right? That's usually a fairly, again, no 00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:14.800 guarantee, but it's a pretty good rule of thumb 00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:17.619 to kind of follow, I think. Now, these four things 00:36:17.619 --> 00:36:19.420 that I pointed out, these are not guarantees, 00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.480 but the combination of these should help steer 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:25.679 you in the right direction. In the least, I think 00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:28.780 we can expose those that need to get exposed. 00:36:29.780 --> 00:36:32.860 Unfortunately, we need to do this regularly, 00:36:33.099 --> 00:36:35.639 like all the time. Like I said from the first 00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:38.199 episode, there's too many people that have a 00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:40.679 hard time seeing bitches for who they are. So 00:36:40.679 --> 00:36:44.539 explaining who the real bitches are and why they're 00:36:44.539 --> 00:36:47.940 bitches, it helps. us to at least know what to 00:36:47.940 --> 00:36:51.619 look for um but the guidelines i gave you these 00:36:51.619 --> 00:36:55.179 are still not guarantees and on top of that because 00:36:55.179 --> 00:36:57.079 there's so many self -proclaimed experts you're 00:36:57.079 --> 00:36:59.860 going to probably have to you know utilize these 00:36:59.860 --> 00:37:03.199 principles pretty regularly right it takes it 00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:06.119 takes a lot of time and energy to do it um but 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:09.780 that should also mean that you will probably 00:37:09.780 --> 00:37:13.340 be more wary of believing whatever you see online 00:37:13.340 --> 00:37:15.800 which is a Honestly, for me, that would be a 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:18.420 win. That would be a good thing. Because honestly, 00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:20.719 I would say, I don't know what the exact percentage 00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:23.219 would be, but I'd probably say 80 % to 90 % of 00:37:23.219 --> 00:37:28.840 the stuff online is just trash. You want to pick 00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:32.739 out the nuggets of good material, solid information, 00:37:32.900 --> 00:37:37.139 reliable information that you can. All right. 00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:40.639 Now, I need to confess something. Some of you 00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:43.780 who know me personally or have listened to most 00:37:43.780 --> 00:37:47.500 of my podcasts probably are sensing some hypocrisy 00:37:47.500 --> 00:37:50.199 coming from me because I often speak like I'm 00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:53.059 certain. I often sound like super arrogant and 00:37:53.059 --> 00:37:56.380 confident about my views. I've actually often 00:37:56.380 --> 00:37:58.920 been accused of being arrogant in this way, of 00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:00.860 being an elitist, of beating people over the 00:38:00.860 --> 00:38:02.739 head with ideas without supporting my views. 00:38:03.019 --> 00:38:05.599 I talk mad shit. Let's just be honest. I'll just 00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:09.190 put it out there. I talk mad shit. I should probably 00:38:09.190 --> 00:38:12.210 get some of that under control. Much of it is 00:38:12.210 --> 00:38:15.849 my tendency to not speak with a nuance that reflects 00:38:15.849 --> 00:38:19.030 my actual belief. If you press me on anything 00:38:19.030 --> 00:38:22.630 I have ever said, if you want to hear my real 00:38:22.630 --> 00:38:24.610 views, you'll hear me be a lot more nuanced. 00:38:24.909 --> 00:38:26.309 It's like, actually, it's a bit more complicated 00:38:26.309 --> 00:38:28.710 than that. I'm fairly certain, but it's actually 00:38:28.710 --> 00:38:31.349 possible that I'm wrong. I say this all after 00:38:31.349 --> 00:38:33.010 the fact, so sometimes people get annoyed with 00:38:33.010 --> 00:38:34.650 me. They're like, why do you sound so certain 00:38:34.650 --> 00:38:36.170 in the beginning and then backtrack? It's like, 00:38:36.170 --> 00:38:40.610 well... I'm not meaning to, but speaking with 00:38:40.610 --> 00:38:42.489 nuance sometimes is kind of hard and exhausting. 00:38:43.809 --> 00:38:48.789 For me, anyway, I tend to go off on tangents 00:38:48.789 --> 00:38:51.869 if I focus on all the nuances. And then people 00:38:51.869 --> 00:38:54.030 get annoyed for a different reason because it 00:38:54.030 --> 00:38:57.550 feels like I'm going off on tangents. I want 00:38:57.550 --> 00:38:59.050 to be clear about something. I'm generally not 00:38:59.050 --> 00:39:02.289 certain about anything. I personally usually 00:39:02.289 --> 00:39:05.369 play a percentage game. How confident am I in 00:39:05.369 --> 00:39:08.690 my belief? And most of my beliefs fall under 00:39:08.690 --> 00:39:13.789 like 80 % confidence, most. There's a lot of 00:39:13.789 --> 00:39:17.110 other areas, like specifically in economics, 00:39:17.309 --> 00:39:22.690 politics. There's certain areas where my confidence 00:39:22.690 --> 00:39:24.570 level is even lower because I'm like, I know 00:39:24.570 --> 00:39:27.769 I don't know enough. And it's just hard to predict 00:39:27.769 --> 00:39:30.210 with regards to some of these things that have 00:39:30.210 --> 00:39:32.750 a lot of moving parts and a lot of variables. 00:39:33.610 --> 00:39:35.409 I just know I'm probably going to be wrong in 00:39:35.409 --> 00:39:39.309 any prediction. So, you know, if I were to be 00:39:39.309 --> 00:39:41.789 completely honest with you, I'm fairly uncertain 00:39:41.789 --> 00:39:44.309 about most things. People who know me fairly 00:39:44.309 --> 00:39:47.710 well know this. I've, you know, I've spoken about 00:39:47.710 --> 00:39:49.750 this, I think, in other places. But, you know, 00:39:49.769 --> 00:39:51.429 one of the first classes in philosophy that got 00:39:51.429 --> 00:39:54.110 me going, that got me excited was a course on 00:39:54.110 --> 00:39:57.469 Descartes, where we're discussing like radical 00:39:57.469 --> 00:40:01.130 skepticism. the ideas from those discussions 00:40:01.130 --> 00:40:04.670 really stuck with me like i'm fairly unconfident 00:40:04.670 --> 00:40:06.610 in most of my beliefs like we're talking even 00:40:06.610 --> 00:40:09.730 like will the sun rise tomorrow or will it be 00:40:09.730 --> 00:40:11.809 a sunny day tomorrow and i live in california 00:40:11.809 --> 00:40:13.590 it's like of course it's gonna be a sunny day 00:40:13.590 --> 00:40:17.889 tomorrow like but even that i'm like 90 certain 00:40:17.889 --> 00:40:21.130 80 i mean depends on the time of the year right 00:40:21.130 --> 00:40:25.809 um but i do talk often talk in a way that might 00:40:25.809 --> 00:40:28.400 express more certainty than i hold That's my 00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:31.519 fault, something for me to work on. I'm sorry 00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:33.800 if I gave you that impression, although I'm not 00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:35.579 going to lie. Sometimes I do it just to be funny 00:40:35.579 --> 00:40:39.500 as part of my sense of humor. But I want to be 00:40:39.500 --> 00:40:41.139 clear about something. I think it's also besides 00:40:41.139 --> 00:40:44.179 the point, right? The point I've been trying 00:40:44.179 --> 00:40:46.420 to make is not that people can't be mistaken 00:40:46.420 --> 00:40:50.119 or faulty or overly confident from time to time. 00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:55.000 I said, like, look. everybody makes mistakes. 00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:57.579 Everybody is confident about something they believe 00:40:57.579 --> 00:40:59.360 to be true and then turns out they're wrong, 00:40:59.460 --> 00:41:04.119 right? It happens. It happens all the time. I'm 00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:07.260 not as concerned about that. It's about that 00:41:07.260 --> 00:41:11.019 deeper thing in you. As I've said, we all have 00:41:11.019 --> 00:41:13.579 a little bitch in us. But the question is whether 00:41:13.579 --> 00:41:17.199 or not you left this bitch inside you, you left 00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:20.780 it unchecked and let it run rampant, okay? You 00:41:20.780 --> 00:41:24.059 will be wrong. You will be overconfident in something 00:41:24.059 --> 00:41:26.260 you have no business being overconfident in. 00:41:26.519 --> 00:41:30.880 You'll be arrogant at times. I am this way sometimes. 00:41:31.699 --> 00:41:36.099 I make this mistake fairly regularly, I think. 00:41:37.460 --> 00:41:40.519 The question is, can you acknowledge it when 00:41:40.519 --> 00:41:44.380 you're called out for it? Can you see that you 00:41:44.380 --> 00:41:47.059 are being a bitch and make a genuine effort to 00:41:47.059 --> 00:41:51.429 be better? I know... This isn't saying much, 00:41:51.570 --> 00:41:55.230 but I'll be real. I was worse than I am now. 00:41:56.530 --> 00:42:00.210 I mean, if you think I talk shit now, it was 00:42:00.210 --> 00:42:02.989 worse before and far more hurtful to others, 00:42:03.090 --> 00:42:07.090 right? Yes, it could get worse than the way I 00:42:07.090 --> 00:42:10.989 am already. So that just tells you the long road 00:42:10.989 --> 00:42:12.889 that I had to travel to being less of a bitch. 00:42:13.269 --> 00:42:16.170 All this to say, look, I'm working on being better. 00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:20.059 If you're one of these bitches that I'm describing, 00:42:20.260 --> 00:42:24.119 look, it's possible for you to not be such a 00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:26.360 bitch. You could work on it. You could be better 00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:29.480 about it. But what you need to do is you need 00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:32.340 to acknowledge your bitch assetry in order to 00:42:32.340 --> 00:42:37.559 take the steps to recovery, right? I've acknowledged 00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:40.760 long ago that I have a problem and that I was 00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:44.739 truly being a bitch in a lot of ways, okay? It's 00:42:44.739 --> 00:42:48.610 your turn to take those steps as well. I am going 00:42:48.610 --> 00:42:50.809 to be okay with you making mistakes. I'm going 00:42:50.809 --> 00:42:52.969 to be okay with your being overconfident and 00:42:52.969 --> 00:42:57.210 arrogant at times. That's fine as long as you're 00:42:57.210 --> 00:43:00.070 taking steps to be better about it. That's all 00:43:00.070 --> 00:43:03.989 that I ask, right? And if you're willing to take 00:43:03.989 --> 00:43:05.829 that journey, if you're willing to take steps 00:43:05.829 --> 00:43:08.690 to be better, I will walk through life with you 00:43:08.690 --> 00:43:11.550 and we'll get through it together. We'll be less 00:43:11.550 --> 00:43:13.909 of a bitch together. We'll call each other out 00:43:13.909 --> 00:43:17.420 for shit. And we will point out each other's 00:43:17.420 --> 00:43:20.719 flaws and mistakes and help each other be better 00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:24.980 about it. And I promise it gets better. It gets 00:43:24.980 --> 00:43:27.960 better, but it only gets better if you actually 00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:31.880 take the steps to be better. So make all the 00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:37.039 mistakes, be wrong, be arrogant at times, but 00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:40.099 learn from it. Acknowledge when you've stepped 00:43:40.099 --> 00:43:42.900 out of line. Listen to other people when they 00:43:42.900 --> 00:43:44.639 point out that you're being an arrogant bitch. 00:43:45.659 --> 00:43:49.099 And learn to acknowledge, to admit when you're 00:43:49.099 --> 00:43:52.980 wrong. It's okay. Admitting that you're wrong 00:43:52.980 --> 00:43:57.019 doesn't make you a bitch. Not admitting it is 00:43:57.019 --> 00:44:00.159 what makes you a bitch. And that's the one thing 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:01.840 I want, is for you to stop being a bitch.