Hunter Maats talks with Dave Rael about education, perspective, science, reason, persuasion, and fundamentalism
Chapters:
- - Hunter's background and story
- - Resources and resourcefulness
- - Thinking and feeling are always linked
- - The Straight-A Conspiracy, Mindset, and practical learning
- - Aristocrats, eugenics, and Intelligence Quotient
- - IQ research, the blind men and the elephant, and sectarian differences
- - The relevance of "redneck culture"
- - The meaning of "Mixed Mental Arts"
- - Managing anger, engaging people with difficult perspectives, and challenging people
- - Fundamentalism
- - Identification of fundamentalists
- - The difference between the message sent and the message received
- - Susceptibility of humans to fundamentalism
- - Shaking up echo chambers and rounding out worldviews
Resources:
- Mixed Mental Arts
- The Straight-A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the World - Hunter Maats
- Jim Watson
- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
- The Mixed Mental Arts Book List
- Some Context on "You should never meet your heroes"
- Katie O'Brien
- William Kamkwamba
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba
- Good Will Hunting
- Carol Dweck
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck
- “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark Twain
- The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition - Charles Darwin
- Francis Galton
- Lewis Terman
- The Blind Men and the Elephant
- Heritability of IQ
- Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count - Richard E. Nisbett
- Richard Nisbett
- Mandi Ainslie
- "Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron Levenstein
- Thomas Sowell
- Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell
- Alvin Toffler
- "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler
- Bryan Callen
- "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." - Bruce Lee
- Hamlet (AmazonClassics Edition) - William Shakespeare
- The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
- Sam Harris
- Richard Dawkins
- Atul Gawande
- Atul Gawande at Caltech on the nature of the scientist - "... an experimental mind, not a litigious one" - quoting Edwin Hubble
- "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
- Lena Dunham
- Richard Spencer
- Boggart
- Tom Woods
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Tom Woods on the Bryan Callen Show / Mixed Mental Arts podcast
- Strong Opinions, Weakly Held
- Fantich and Young