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