The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - What Do Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Joe Rogan Have in Common？ (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_762)

00:00:00.380 Hi, everybody. Thank you so much for coming. I always think that I'm going to prep these,

00:00:10.740 you know, promote them way ahead of time, but I always operate on sort of the impulse

00:00:16.400 of whenever the spirit moves me to decide to do something. So today I wanted to talk

00:00:21.300 about the title of my spaces is, What do Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Joe Rogan have in

00:00:28.480 common? And actually, I wish there was a way for me to look at what you guys might be writing here,

00:00:34.100 but maybe in the, I guess there is a chat here that I can look at, but I'm afraid to touch anything

00:00:40.760 and screw things up. So I'm not going to touch anything. Maybe in the thread, you can guess

00:00:46.220 what is the single word that I might use that is similar to those three. I mean, you could say,

00:00:53.360 obviously, oh, they're all male. You could say they're all rich, but obviously that's not what

00:01:00.160 I mean. So what is there, if there is a singular trait or a set of traits that make them similar

00:01:07.040 to each other, what might that trait be? And here, before I get going, I want to discuss something

00:01:12.820 from multivariate statistics, which exactly addresses this type of question. So suppose,

00:01:18.540 for example, you're a politician, and you can break up the world into those who voted for you

00:01:27.720 and those who didn't vote for you. And so now you'd like to identify what are the predictors

00:01:34.460 that discriminate between those who said yes to you and those who didn't. Or think about if you're a

00:01:40.600 company. There are people who never tried your product. There are people who periodically try your

00:01:46.340 product. And there are people who are very much brand loyal to you. And so there are three types

00:01:50.580 of consumers. And you'd like to identify what are the predictors that can help you predict into which

00:01:56.620 camp each of the consumers would fall into. The never tried your product, sometimes try your product,

00:02:03.640 or always have your product. So the multivariate statistical technique that achieves that is called

00:02:10.080 discriminant analysis. And it is a very, very powerful statistical technique that occurs not only in

00:02:19.500 marketing and economics, but in political theory and any place where you need to find predictors that

00:02:25.720 help you discriminate between membership in two groups. Now, in this case, I'm looking for a single

00:02:33.500 trait that might help us predict whether you will belong in the Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Joe Rogan

00:02:41.580 book or camp. And so here, rather than saying what it is, and then sort of just explaining it, I'm going

00:02:51.640 to read for you and you're going to get it once I read this section from my happiness book, you're

00:02:57.740 obviously going to understand what that word is. By the way, if you if you want to guess what that word is,

00:03:03.180 what that trait is, please write it in the thread of where I announced just to see how many people

00:03:11.120 actually guess it. So it's just one word. What is the singular trait that makes Elon Musk, Donald

00:03:17.180 Trump, and Joe Rogan similar? And it may not be a a the only trait, but it's certainly I think one that

00:03:24.740 clearly predicts a lot of their success. So for example, you might say, oh, they're all intelligent,

00:03:30.380 or they all went to university, but although they didn't, right? Joe, I don't think he finished

00:03:35.400 university. So what is that singular trait? So now I'm going to read for you from page 169

00:03:45.680 of my happiness book, The Sad Truth About Happiness. So bear with me. I think it's a fun read. So it'll be

00:03:54.020 about maybe four pages. And then I'll come and say more about it. But I think it's worth reading

00:03:58.980 that. Okay, last chance to lock in your guests about what the the trait is. Because once I read

00:04:06.680 the the the the heading of that section, you will know what it is. All right, you ready? This is I'm

00:04:12.680 going to give you five seconds. Five, four, three, two, one. All right. So here's what the title of the

00:04:19.040 section is authenticity as protection against existential threat. So now I'm reading straight

00:04:26.020 from my book at the bottom of 169. Because truth and freedom are the two driving ideals of my life,

00:04:31.920 there are few personal traits that I despise more than inauthenticity. Inauthentic people embody

00:04:39.540 falsehoods and tell many lies. And this violates my love for truth. An authentic person has only one

00:04:47.180 script to remember the one that corresponds to his true self. And thus, he can live freely and

00:04:53.320 honestly. When I watch Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris in their public lives, I'm struck by the

00:05:01.120 extent to which they exude an aura of falsity. Boy, was that ever prophetic. Because I mean, I this book

00:05:08.780 came out well before Kamala, you know, was running for president. So let me read that sentence again.

00:05:14.180 When I watch Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris in their public lives, I am struck by the extent to

00:05:19.680 which they exude an aura of falsity. There is nothing natural about them. Everything is strained,

00:05:26.720 fake, and phony. This is sinister on multiple levels. It signals to the world that the fraudster

00:05:33.480 is unsure about her real self. And as such, she must constantly construct a new personhood

00:05:39.700 for the situation at hand. Now, this, I'm not reading now. I'm adding my own commentary now. I'll go back

00:05:46.360 to reading the thing. Think about the accents that Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton use. How 0.98

00:05:56.760 cringeworthy it is when, you know, they suddenly become a Southern Baptist. Suddenly, they become a,

00:06:04.080 you know, Martin Luther King. Then they become, yeah, man, bomba plot. Yes, that's true champion,

00:06:10.860 Jamaica, right? Suddenly, they become Rastafari. Then they become, you know, whatever, all the 0.99

00:06:16.900 different, you know, morning is cometh or whatever Baptist bullshit she does when she goes to, I think, 0.99

00:06:25.860 Detroit, right? That's falsity, right? Now, look at Donald Trump. Whether you like him or don't like 0.99

00:06:32.240 him, he's exactly the same guy. He's speaking at a black function. He speaks the same. He's speaking 0.93

00:06:38.300 in front of rich hedge fund guys, white guys. He's the same. He speaks in front of Hispanics. He's

00:06:44.200 the same. Why? Because he just presents himself to the world and says, this is who I am. Some people

00:06:50.780 will like it. Some people won't. But everyone should love the fact that he's authentic. All right,

00:06:56.040 let's go on. Oh, I actually mentioned that here. So who would, who could forget the false

00:07:01.160 accents that Hillary Clinton would affect as a function of the audience that she was addressing 0.97

00:07:05.540 or the cackling of Kamala Harris whenever she asked an uncomfortable, she's asked an uncomfortable

00:07:11.240 question or her infamously bizarre interaction with children, some of whom were child actors

00:07:16.700 about the wonders of space research. She advised them that one could see the craters of the moon

00:07:22.080 with their own eyes. Wow. So I can see the moon, the stars and the sun simply by looking up at the

00:07:29.140 sky and staring at these cosmic realities with my own eyes. Wondrous. I would much rather interact

00:07:35.900 with an authentic person whose character traits I might find disagreeable, like Donald Trump,

00:07:40.740 than an inauthentic person who reeks of duplicity, but is otherwise, quote, nice, like Kamala Harris.

00:07:47.720 Remember, I wrote this well before this election happened, right? Authentic people are honest with

00:07:55.500 themselves and with those around them. They navigate the world with a honey badger's, quote,

00:08:00.660 I don't give a fuck attitude. Authentic people never equivocate on their positions to please or 0.99

00:08:06.760 placate the crowd. Instead, they tell it like it is whilst being unconcerned about how others might view

00:08:13.780 them. Authentic people are confident in part because they are honest. They are comfortable in their own skin

00:08:19.740 because they do not desire to dissimulate. They do not pretend to be someone other than themselves.

00:08:26.040 Under pressure, they do not assume the fetal position or prevaricate. They do not sit on the

00:08:33.180 fence when a decision has to be made. They do what they think is right, work to achieve a good result,

00:08:38.800 and accept that they have agency to shape their own lives. Hence, they are much more likely to be happy

00:08:44.740 individuals. A central feature of personal authenticity is realness or genuineness. One

00:08:51.040 is real if there is a congruency between one's internal feelings and overt behaviors, even if such

00:08:57.140 genuineness yields negative personal or social outcomes. While being real can at times carry

00:09:03.940 negative consequences, this form of personal authenticity is associated with greater psychological

00:09:11.280 health and well-being across a broad range of measures. Being authentic is negatively correlated

00:09:18.360 with neuroticism and depression, but positively correlated with agreeableness and conscientiousness.

00:09:24.700 If you are true to your personhood, you minimize the chances of future regret, for you have removed

00:09:31.340 any incongruency between your internal thoughts and feelings and your external actions. It is perhaps not

00:09:37.940 surprising then that authenticity is correlated with life satisfaction and well-being.

00:09:43.080 So now look at the clip. Now I'll go back to reading from the book, but now I'm just going to make a few

00:09:50.820 comments. If you saw the clip that just came out of Kamala Harris, I could only get to, I think,

00:09:58.640 two minutes and four seconds. I think the full clip was about nine minutes. I just couldn't stomach it

00:10:03.420 anymore. So if anybody has been able to beat my record of two minutes and four seconds, kudos to

00:10:08.920 you. It's unbelievable, right? You can see how she's an empty shell of a person. That's why she couldn't 1.00

00:10:17.820 do Joe Rogan, right? Because to go on Joe Rogan, if you're inauthentic, boy, it's going to come out in

00:10:26.200 five seconds because you're sitting there. Your soul is exposed. He's going to bring up a million

00:10:33.440 things. If you can't, you know, present your authentic self, it's going to take three seconds

00:10:39.680 for everything to fall apart. That's why she wasn't able to do it. On the other hand, Trump, I mean,

00:10:45.180 I'm not saying that Trump is a mixture of Darwin, Newton, and Epictetus, but he's authentic. You want

00:10:50.600 to talk about football? He will. You want to talk about how beautiful women are? Okay, let's talk

00:10:56.240 about that. He's a real human being. Whether you like him or not, that's not the point. He's authentic,

00:11:01.820 okay? So I'll come back to the similarities, how each, you know, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Joe

00:11:07.780 Rogan are authentic in their own ways when I finish reading this section. So I'm continuing now. I'm on

00:11:14.200 page 171 of The Sad Truth About Happiness. Please consider buying it. It's really, truly,

00:11:20.600 a super fun, I mean, and of course, deep book. Many philosophers have written about the concept

00:11:28.100 of personal authenticity, including Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul

00:11:33.300 Sartre. But perhaps the best advice comes from the ancient Greek adage, know thyself. Students often

00:11:41.400 seek my advice about their career paths. Often they think in terms of market opportunities. Quote,

00:11:47.040 Professor Saad, should I study big data analytics? I hear the market is hot for this expertise. Close

00:11:53.240 quote. As a business school professor, I fully appreciate the importance of identifying and

00:11:57.760 exploiting untapped market niches. But this cannot be the sole means by which one makes crucial

00:12:03.120 educational and career decisions. If you wish to live an existentially authentic life, you must look

00:12:09.640 within and ask which career path is best aligned with your true self. Failure to engage in this

00:12:16.040 calculus is what leads us, is what leads to regret later in life. Market conditions might suggest

00:12:23.180 that it is a good idea to become a chartered accountant. But if your main interest in life

00:12:27.940 is art and architecture, then you might regret spending 40 years as a tax accountant, notwithstanding

00:12:35.300 the fact that some accountants are true, quote, artists and their ability to skirt the tax code

00:12:41.700 legally. When we study regret, we often see that it lies in the discrepancy between one's actual self,

00:12:48.060 tax accountant, and ideal self, architect, or between one's actual self and odd self, a feeling

00:12:54.780 that one should be better, more honest, more kindly. It turns out that the most frequent regrets

00:13:00.940 correspond to discrepancies between a person's actual and ideal self. The smaller the discrepancy

00:13:06.280 between your actual and ideal self, the more existentially happy you will be. Being genuine

00:13:13.000 can lead to professional success. I have hosted hundreds of guests on my show The Sad Truth, with

00:13:18.400 the great majority of whom are highly accomplished individuals. They come from a broad range of

00:13:23.320 backgrounds, jobs, and professions, and they are radically different from one another in countless

00:13:28.220 ways. And yet, the common thread is that they all have interesting things to say, and I'm lucky

00:13:33.760 enough to be the host who can orchestrate a fascinating dialogue. I have been successful in

00:13:38.800 this role because I am an authentic person. Being authentic serves as a disarming quality because it

00:13:45.500 immediately puts the other person at ease. The guests can relax and know that they need not be on

00:13:52.060 psychological guard, for their interlocutor is genuine. Of all my guests, few have been as

00:13:58.200 beguilingly charming as the journalist and attorney, Megan Kelly. During our chat, we were discussing

00:14:03.740 things that we might have regretted in our lives. To her credit, she stated that there were few if

00:14:08.940 any things that she regretted because any experience she had, even if it ended badly, allowed her to

00:14:14.540 grow as an individual. Fair enough. I then proceeded to share my regret that my career has been hampered

00:14:20.960 by an inability to compromise my professional principles, actions, or speech for careerist reasons.

00:14:27.200 She replied that my open and frank manner is precisely what made me attractive to so many

00:14:34.200 people. In other words, rather than regretting any elements of my authentic self, I should embrace them

00:14:40.100 for they have brought me great rewards. Since we are both no-nonsense honey badgers, it is perhaps not

00:14:46.900 surprising that she would appreciate those uncompromising qualities in me.

00:14:51.500 I'll stop here for now. I mean, this section goes on. It's really good. I hope that you'll read the

00:14:58.600 whole thing, but I mean, you get the general idea. Look, there are two elements of authenticity. There's

00:15:03.820 sort of existential authenticity, right? Live a life that is authentic. Don't become a pediatrician

00:15:10.360 because your mom and dad thought that you should become a pediatrician because you will end up having

00:15:14.620 a midlife crisis when you look back and say, I never wanted to be a physician and certainly be

00:15:20.020 surrounded by kids with colds. I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to be a, whatever, a film critic.

00:15:27.140 So that's, that, that deals with existential authenticity. But here I'm talking about personal

00:15:33.300 authenticity. And so now let me come back to the title of today's X Spaces, which is Elon Musk,

00:15:40.820 Donald Trump, and Joe Rogan are incredibly authentic, right? Now, I've never had the pleasure of meeting

00:15:49.200 Donald Trump. Although next week I am going to Mar-a-Lago. So we'll see what happens. I've been

00:15:55.200 invited to a make education great event, a great again event. So that, that should be fun. Maybe we'll

00:16:02.260 get a chance to hang out. We'll see. But I have met Joe many, many times. I've been on his show many

00:16:07.880 times, I think 10 times now. We've had a chance to, you know, talk both online and offline. And I mean,

00:16:15.020 he's just, he's exactly the guy you would think he is. There's no pretense. There's no falsity. There's

00:16:21.200 no nonsense. You, you get exactly what, what you expect. And one of the reasons why I think I've been

00:16:29.000 able to, to build the audience that I have is, you know, I'm authentic, right? I don't modulate. I

00:16:35.840 don't bullshit. I don't, there's no fakeness in me. There's no falsity. And in my conversation with 0.76

00:16:42.980 Megan that I just read to you, you know, I was like, oh, you know, I wish I played the game better

00:16:47.640 so that at least, and, but then I realized that she's exactly right. I can't play the game because

00:16:53.600 if I, if I played the falsity game, if I modulated, then I wouldn't have been Gadsad. That's,

00:16:58.800 that's what, for better or worse, that's what people find, uh, allows them to trust me because

00:17:05.720 they know I'm going to tell it like it is. And so, uh, you know, I'm happy that I am who I am.

00:17:11.740 I know that at the end of the night, when I put my head on the pillow, if I feel like I was in any

00:17:16.560 way inauthentic, I'd feel as though I'm fraudulent. And that's something that I couldn't live with.

00:17:22.420 Now, I've also had a pleasure of meeting Elon. I went to his house. We spent almost four hours

00:17:28.500 together. What was amazing is I'm sitting here and I'm meeting, you know, the richest man

00:17:37.940 arguably in the history of the world. I don't think there's ever been someone who's wealthier,

00:17:42.520 right? He could be, he could have been arrogant, dismissive, so none of that, zero. The way we

00:17:50.180 started communicating even before we, you know, we, we, we met and so on. It's very natural,

00:17:56.400 zero pretense, zero obnoxiousness, zero signaling. He doesn't have to signal, right? So he presents

00:18:03.160 himself as he is. I present my, the conversation that we had for, you know, it was, I think I got

00:18:10.020 to his house maybe around 10 o'clock at night and left very, very late. And I mean, we talked

00:18:14.720 professional stuff. We talked very intimate, personal stuff. And this was the first time we

00:18:19.920 were meeting in person. We had communicated before, as you know, we had done an X basis together.

00:18:23.920 We had emailed each other, we had texted and so on. But it's as if two people who already

00:18:29.800 had a history with each other are able to sit down. Now, why is that? What, what allowed

00:18:35.320 that to happen? There's no protocol. There's no falsity. There's no signaling. It's just,

00:18:41.240 I mean, literally, I remember I got there and just like, we literally hugged it out, sat next

00:18:47.320 to each other and just engage in this absolutely brilliant conversation, right? That's why Elon

00:18:54.820 Musk is who he is. I mean, of course, he's a visionary. Of course, he's got testicular fortitude.

00:19:00.360 Of course, he doesn't care what people think. He'll do what he thinks is right. What, what

00:19:04.640 will, you know, what, what is the right thing to do? Of course, he's got all those qualities

00:19:08.580 and traits, but he's authentic. Now, I've met a million academics who are a thousand times less

00:19:15.860 accomplished than, than Elon. And I can't stomach to even sit with them at dinner. Why? Because

00:19:23.180 they reek of falsity. They reek of trying, of insecurity, trying to signal which paper they

00:19:30.320 just published in what journal and so on and so forth, right? You meet Joe Rogan, he's just

00:19:36.580 a lovely guy. You sit down and you're both real and you just get along. You meet Elon,

00:19:41.800 same thing. Now, Donald Trump, I haven't had a chance to meet him, but I suspect that, you

00:19:48.060 know, that's why he resonates with people. Even though he's a billionaire, right? All of

00:19:54.900 the working class people say, wait a second, I, I see myself in this guy. He doesn't talk 1.00

00:20:00.400 down to me. He doesn't think I'm a pleb or a rube or garbage or deplorable or the great 0.99

00:20:06.240 unwashed. He's just authentic, right? And so, of course, he's a honey badger. Look at all the 0.97

00:20:12.120 things that were thrown at him. So, so Joe Rogan, Elon, and Donald Trump are all honey badgers. They

00:20:18.520 all have great courage. I mean, Donald Trump gets shot in the head and the first thing he's saying

00:20:24.180 is fight, fight, fight. I mean, that's going to go as an iconic historic moment. But today, I'm just

00:20:29.240 focusing on authenticity. I spoke to Trump's team before he, you know, before the election and

00:20:37.980 we had talked about him coming on my show and they had said, yeah, we're very interested in having

00:20:44.100 come on your show. But then, of course, they, you know, they ran out of time and they've got a million

00:20:48.460 things that they're doing. And of course, once he had gone on Joe Rogan, then I can understand

00:20:54.580 pragmatically why they might say, okay, well, we, we, we hit now the biggest show. We, you know,

00:20:59.260 we don't need to do necessarily other ones. Of course, I was disappointed that we didn't get a

00:21:04.020 chance to, to chat, but I understood the, you know, there's a calculus, there's, there's a limited time.

00:21:10.460 But when I was communicating with one of his advisors and he had said to me, you know, so what,

00:21:17.260 what would be the angle? How would you want to do this? What I pitched to him is exactly

00:21:22.340 of relevance to what we're talking about today, which is, I said, look, I think that a lot of

00:21:27.660 the people who dislike Donald Trump, dislike him for cosmetic reasons, dislike him for

00:21:33.600 peripheral cues, right? Like the, the thing that I've always explained, getting drunk by smelling

00:21:38.520 the cork of the wine bottle. Oh, I hate Donald Trump. He's vulgar. He's cantankerous. He's brash. 0.99

00:21:44.280 But I said, if, if I think you give him a chance to sit down on a long form, you know, platform,

00:21:52.340 like I had seen him on Greg Gutfeld. Uh, and I can't remember the other one. I saw him in one

00:21:58.440 other place. Uh, then you'll see, like, as long as he's not sucking up all the air in the room,

00:22:04.420 then you'll see that he, you know, he can roll with it. He, he's, he's funny. He can be actually

00:22:10.160 self-deprecating in a, in a Trumpian way. And I think that a lot of people who otherwise might not

00:22:17.280 like him for those affective reasons will come around. And if I may say, I think that's exactly

00:22:24.260 what happened when he went on Joe Rogan's show, right? Because all of the people who would have

00:22:30.040 been, uh, you know, on the, on the fence, listen to this guy who goes on for three hours. Joe doesn't

00:22:36.600 allow, you know, here are the questions you could ask and here are the things you can ask me or not

00:22:41.060 say, so you have to come ready to expose yourself fully expose your soul because in a three hour

00:22:49.080 conversation, a lot is going to come out. And certainly if, if there is falsity, it's going to

00:22:55.560 come out and it didn't come out because he was authentic. And I bet you that that had, I mean, I

00:23:01.120 can't say quantitatively how much effect it had on the final result, but I bet a lot of people who

00:23:08.180 were on the fence said, wait a second. And I've been, I've been sold a, a, a, a bad, uh, bill of

00:23:14.560 goods. I think this guy's cool. I think this guy is fun. I think this guy, yeah, he's a rare, irreverent.

00:23:20.680 Yes. He could be a bit full of himself, but I think I could, I might want to have a beer with this

00:23:25.960 guy. I'm going for this guy. Now imagine what happened to Kamala Harris. She reeks of falsity 1.00

00:23:33.060 because there's no personhood. She can't present a real, a self because there is no self. She's 0.94

00:23:39.820 empty. She's vacuous. So, you know, for all of their other qualities, right? That trait of being 1.00

00:23:49.280 authentic, my God, it is so powerful. And, you know, one of the things that I remember when I was,

00:23:57.040 you know, in elementary school and in high school, you know, how they, they'd always be clicks,

00:24:03.500 right? You know, there's, you know, this exit in high school, this, this door, this is where we

00:24:10.360 used to call them the stoners, right? The guys, you know, who smoke up, right? Uh, or the, the rockers.

00:24:16.080 And this group is where the, the jocks hang, hang out. And this, this area is where the, the nerds hang

00:24:21.800 out. Well, guess what? I could navigate across all of those groups and I was appreciated and liked and

00:24:31.300 had friends amongst all of these groups. I wasn't cliquish. Why? Because I was authentic. I was

00:24:37.860 friendly to everybody. I was nice to everybody. I never demeaned anyone. I mean, yes, I was very good

00:24:44.060 in school so I can hang out with the nerds. I was the king of the nerds in that sense. I was the big

00:24:50.460 soccer player. So of course the, the athlete types respected me, but irrespective of what,

00:24:58.680 whichever talents you may or may not have, the fact that you just presented yourself in a poised,

00:25:05.080 authentic manner makes people attracted to you. And so now, of course, the next question is, can,

00:25:11.900 can this is, you know, the old nature versus nurture question, you know, are people, uh, largely

00:25:17.880 born authentic or can you teach authenticity? Well, like most things in life, I think, you know,

00:25:26.740 there's an interaction, there's a bit of both, but, uh, and so I think there is a nature element

00:25:34.100 whereby just some people are much more confident, have a better sense of self-esteem, have well-articulated

00:25:41.720 positions so they can present themselves to the world authentically. But I do think that there are

00:25:46.400 possibly ways by which, you know, you can't take, you can't take Kamala Harris and suddenly make her go

00:25:54.180 through, you know, three weeks of seminars with Professor Gadsad and she'll come out as the most

00:26:00.480 authentic person. I mean, you can't do that. But within the margins, I think you could, it's kind of

00:26:05.960 like a radio dial, right? The radio dial is set somewhere, but you could move it a bit to the left

00:26:10.780 or to the right. Just like when you think about, say, you know, how do you score on introversion or

00:26:16.300 extroversion? Well, there are innate differences. I may score higher on extroversion and you may score

00:26:23.760 higher on introversion, but it also interacts with situations. There might be situations that you place

00:26:29.440 me in where just the dynamics of the situation, you know, forces me to be a bit more, uh, introverted

00:26:36.660 and others. And so nothing is absolutely cast in stone when it comes to, you know, these, these

00:26:43.120 personal qualities and personal traits. So there you have it, folks. Uh, I mean, what, what, what brought

00:26:50.320 this up for me was when I saw today, um, that, you know, that clip with, uh, with Kamala, it just,

00:26:58.880 and what amazes me is the lack of self-awareness. I mean, not just of her,

00:27:06.660 her, her lack of self-awareness, but she must have people who are advising her who thought,

00:27:12.900 you know what, release this clip. And this is going to be a good thing. You know, I always tell

00:27:18.540 people for any, you know, behavioral pattern we engage in, let's say I'm trying to lose weight this

00:27:24.880 week. Uh, you know, at the end of the week, based on the decisions that I've made in terms of my food

00:27:32.440 and exercise, only one of three things can happen to my weight, right? We can all agree on that.

00:27:36.060 There's, there's only three possibilities. My weight either goes up, my weight does not change

00:27:41.700 one milli ounce, or my weight goes down. There's no other possibility, right? And so for every action,

00:27:49.180 I could say, well, what is the probability that that action will result in state one,

00:27:55.180 state two, or state three? And so when, when she's releasing that clip, who is saying,

00:28:02.160 yes, yes, yes, do this. Demonstrate that you're somewhat drunk, you're, you're, you're, you're

00:28:09.180 engaging in this complete, you know, woke, platitudinous language. You know, you all have power. I believe in

00:28:17.980 you. Don't let anybody tell you, you don't have power. You have a, I mean, stuff that's so

00:28:24.220 inauthentic. So, it just rings so fast that you really feel like uncomfortable listening to it.

00:28:31.180 But because the people that she's around have existed in this completely parallel universe,

00:28:39.160 they're unable to do the auto correction that says, hey, wait a sec, wait a second. This,

00:28:44.540 I don't think this is going to go as well as, you know, you think it might go. So, there you have

00:28:51.600 it, folks. To the best of your abilities, always be authentic, always be. Now, by the way, again,

00:28:57.600 let me just mention this. Authentic doesn't mean that you never necessarily bite your tongue,

00:29:05.880 right? Remember, I've talked in the past about consequential versus deontological ethics,

00:29:13.240 right? And deontological ethics is absolute statements, right? It is never okay to lie.

00:29:18.080 That would be deontological. Consequentials would be, it's okay to lie if I spare someone's feelings.

00:29:24.480 So, if I go to a dinner with a host and they presented me with food that absolutely sucked,

00:29:33.400 that was just an affront to the dignity of hospitality, and they say, so, did you enjoy your

00:29:39.440 food? I'm not going to go, oh, well, dear so-and-so, this is arguably the shittiest dinner I've ever had

00:29:46.400 in my life, and you absolutely are a degenerate when it comes to your ability to be a hospitable 0.97

00:29:53.840 host, right? I'm not going to say that. I'm going to say, oh, thank you. That was really lovely. It was 0.98

00:29:58.000 nice meeting you now. Was I not telling the full absolute truth? Yes, of course, but that's,

00:30:04.360 it's natural. We're a social species. We want to protect the feelings of someone else. We have to

00:30:10.520 be gracious. We have to be poised. So, being authentic doesn't mean that you are a brash brute

00:30:19.340 that just, you know, you're a bull in a china shop. It means that the way that you present yourself to 0.95

00:30:25.720 the world, it just has a realness to it, right? You know, my daughter can tell if something is

00:30:34.640 bothering me. It's as if she has like an x-ray machine. She could read any micro cue on my face.

00:30:43.320 She'll come up to me and say, well, what's bothering you, Dad? I say, oh, nothing. She goes,

00:30:46.800 I can tell what's bothering you. Well, that's because I wear my emotions on my sleeve. You know

00:30:52.640 exactly if I'm happy. You know if I'm concerned about something. You know, I don't, I'm just

00:30:58.380 authentic in every possible way in my personal life. If I'm interacting with my Belgian shepherds,

00:31:04.320 if I'm interacting on Joe Rogan or with Elon Musk, it doesn't matter. I'm lecturing. I always present

00:31:11.380 myself to the world as is, and hopefully people will appreciate it. So, there you go, people. The

00:31:17.140 virtues of authenticity. Certainly, the ancient Greeks knew all about it. I wish you all a great

00:31:23.020 day. Thank you so much for joining me on short notice. If you wish to support in any way, you can

00:31:28.220 sign up for my exclusive content. So, for example, I might decide now to go and put links to papers on

00:31:35.560 authenticity, academic papers. You'll only get that if you sign up for the equivalent of the price of a

00:31:42.060 latte per month. Thank you so much, folks, and I'll talk to you soon. Cheers, everybody.

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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - November 28, 2024

What Do Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Joe Rogan Have in Common？ (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_762)

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