Dr. Nicholas Wright

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239 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 6 Feb

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Bannon`s War Room · WarRoom Battleground EP 943: Top Neuroscientist Deconstructs How POTUS Wrongfoots Opponents And German Elites Importing Crime · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

If he doesn't do it, then that in itself is a surprise, and therefore that will have a big impact.

we in all of our lives we we are constantly um thinking about how the world's going to be is it going to be more predictable is it going to be less predictable and this is a basic way that you can uh affect um others and just to give you one great example this is actually something that taylor swift does so taylor swift wrote a piece in the wall street journal in which he said the way that you build relationships with your fans is through surprise

Not shocked, but surprised.

And so she, for example, will often turn up and suddenly play the guitar behind somebody, a fan or whatever, and that will be on social media.

So this is just an effective way of communicating.

And that type of communication could be on social media for Taylor Swift.

It could be between governments.

And the reason is that it's a basic feature of how our brains work, everybody's brains.

Yeah.

And I mean, the thing is, also, I mean, Surprise will always be a tool that can be used, and he is good at using Surprise, which is one of the reasons why, you know, also, for example, he's a good entertainer.

You know, when you listen to him, he has good comic timing.

Now, again, it's a tool.

It doesn't necessarily mean that everything he's doing is right, or it's necessarily the best choice, but he's obviously good at using these tools, tools that tap into how our brains work.

Are you wanting a yes or no?

Sorry, I gave you a no.

I would say that, for example, this was something that Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger understood.

I was in Egypt a few weeks ago, and I was reading about the first ever battle described in history, and they used surprise in that first ever battle that was used.

In fact, they went through Gaza, interestingly, so this has been a difficult period.

But this is something that has been used for a very, very long time.

He's just good at doing it.

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