Today we have Dr. Gleb Tsipursky on the podcast. Dr. Tsipursky is passionate about promoting truth, rational thinking, and wise decision-making. He is a tenure-track professor at Ohio State, serves as the volunteer President of the nonprofit Intentional Insights, is a co-founder of the Pro-Truth Pledge, and the author of a number of a number of books, most notably the #1 Amazon bestseller The Truth Seeker¹s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide. He is currently working on a book on relationships and cognitive bias.
In this interview we discuss:
- Gleb’s humble worldview
- How humans are not adapted to evaluate reality clearly
- “The backfire effect”
- How to make better choices aligned with reality
- When should we rely on our gut?
- How we so often fall prey to the “fundamental attribution error”
- Ways we can recognize the thinking errors that prevent us from seeing reality more clearly
- How friends can be the enemies of wise choices
- The irrationality of political decisions
- The importance of differentiating between the truth and personal values
- How Gleb derives his personal values
- Why people lose so much money in the stock market
- Why you don’t want to invest in a mutual funds
- Why the mainstream media be careful when they criticize conservatives
- The one thing Trump got right in Charlottesville
- How to convince your enemies to collaborate with you
- How Gleb escaped the darkness of mental illness through his rational approach to living
- How we can protect our happiness against emotional traps
- Gleb’s “Pro-Truth Pledge” (https://www.protruthpledge.org)
- How you can live the life you want to live