George Mack is a writer, marketer and an entrepreneur.

Thinking for yourself is one of the most important skills you can develop. However it's hard. It's a difficult task to overcome the boring, negative, irrational trends around you. Which is why you need some new tools in your mental models box.

Expect to learn what the Keynsian Beauty Contest is, why memes are so influential in society today, which behaviours appear positive but actually harm you in disguise, what the forgetting paradox is, what the most useful emotional state is, why “ignorance is bliss” is a putdown in 2023 and much more...

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00:00 The Ranked Levels of Social Interaction
07:50 Introvert or Need Better Friends?
12:27 The Importance of Memes
18:58 Understanding the Power of Leverage
27:18 Memes Compress Mass Emotion
33:33 The Coming Cybercrime Crisis
37:50 Hiring Chief Meme Officers
43:19 Is Mainstream Media Still Prestigious?
49:10 Why Everything is Wrong
51:33 Avoid Trojan Horses of Content
1:00:09 How to Craft Your Content Algorithm
1:04:35 How Many Thoughts Can You Remember?
1:15:37 Crazy Ideas That Will Become Normal
1:22:01 Slow Success Strategy for Happiness
1:27:20 The Most Useful Emotional State
1:35:46 Guy Ritchie’s New FootWarmer
1:37:38 What’s Next for George



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