#712 The Science of Goodness - Dr. Jamil Zaki

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jamil Zaki is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Stanford who studies cynicism and hope. He shares what he’s learned through his research, what drew him to study the brain in this way, and offers practical ways you can work through your cynical tendencies and lean in to hope. Watch for his new book Hope for Cynics The Surprising Science of Human Goodness.

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Buy his new book Hope For Cynics here https://www.amazon.com/Hope-Cynics-Surprising-Science-Goodness/dp/153874306X

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamil-zaki-b0b4a9192

Dr. Zaki’s TED Talk on “How to Escape the Cynicism Trap” with 3 million+ views

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 712 with my guest Dr. Jamil Zaki and welcome to a place of honesty for all the battles in our heads.
0:10.0	No matter what they are and welcome to anybody who's coming from the
0:14.0	uh... as p d discord server
0:17.2	i hope i hope you find this
0:20.0	to be a place that is welcoming and compassionate.
0:25.4	And I just picked up the book by Patrick Gagnay.
0:31.6	I thought it was pronounced
0:36.0	Petriek Gagnay, but I was wrong.
0:40.0	And she is a PhD who lives with antisocial personality disorder,
0:47.3	also interchangeably, known as sociopathy. I am assuming it's interchangeable. It's a very complicated topic,
0:59.8	the intersection of ASPD, sociopathy, psychopathy. It's a very, very rich topic.
1:11.0	Anyway, she is a PhD who lives with
1:13.1	sociopathy and she it was her she did her dissertation on it and she's written a book
1:20.4	a memoir called Sociopath. He is one of the most interesting enlightening books that I have ever read.
1:30.0	It is, I'm about 90% done with it and I highly highly recommend it to anybody. I suppose with
1:40.1	the caveat of I would like to know if you want to message me people who do
1:47.1	live with ASPD what they think of it I have the feeling from the surveys that I've read on the
1:53.9	podcast filled out by people who have a SPD anti-social personality disorder that
2:01.0	they will see themselves in those pages and find some comfort in that.
2:10.0	This is from the Ask Paul Anything survey and this is filled out by Carson and he writes
2:17.5	sober and a support group and was wondering where I can draw the line in between being of service to others versus being okay with just asking for what you want and setting boundaries with people.
2:29.0	Question mark.
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