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Mark Rober

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

But, like, live sports seems like a great first place to start.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I'm very non-conspiratorial.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

like my tendency i tend to believe the like mainstream to a degree same skeptical of most people but do you okay so what is your opinion on conspiracy theorists like why why do why do they exist like what is uh my opinion on conspiracy theorists i think that they're exciting

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

If the Illuminati exists and is running everything, it's a nice model that just explains everything.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Absolutely.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

similar i think as humans we're just hardwired to recognize patterns like that's probably evolutionarily like been good and helped us survive if you you know every time those bushes moved you know four to five times a tiger came out i'm gonna make a pattern that that's what's happening right um i think i think

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I have empathy for them, really.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Like when people, even like flat earthers and stuff, when they're like, you idiot.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Like, you know, they're not willing to look at evidence that goes counter to what they believe because they're incentivized to keep those beliefs.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

They have a community.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

They have friends.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Belonging.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

They belong.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And guess what?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Like pretty much everyone listening to this, myself included, all have some beliefs like that.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Just want that.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Well, and we have those, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Where it's like, if you can't tell me five things that you agreed with with Charlie Kirk, or take it the opposite way, that you agree with with like AOC, if you really think everything, like you've never actually listened to what they say, you just know they're the bad person on the other side, you're in the same camp.