# Roy Baumeister

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Why Men Are at the Top of Society (and the bottom) - Roy Baumeister - #1075

Roy Baumeister is a psychologist, professor, and researcher. Are men inherently more expendable from an evolutionary standpoint—and if so, has that dynamic helped drive innovation? If risk-taking outliers are often responsible for progress, what does that say about the role men play in shaping c...

16 Lessons From 2022 - Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson & Jocko Willink - #565

It's the end of 2022 and to celebrate I thought I'd run through some of the best lessons I've picked up over the last 12 months. This year has had over 10,000 minutes of episodes produced so there was a lot to choose from but I ended up settling on 16 insights from some of my favourite conversat...

The Mystery Of Female Sex Drive - Roy Baumeister - #498

Roy Baumeister is a social psychologist at the University of Queensland and an author. The social psychology of sexual interactions is fascinating. Sex is more than just a physical act, it has cultural, emotional, spiritual, psychological and social implications, many of which we are unaware of....

Why Weak Americans Run Towards Fascism

In 1941, a man who had just escaped Nazi Germany sat down at Columbia University and tried to answer the most important question of the twentieth century. It was not “how did Hitler take power?” Historians had already begun documenting that. The question Erich Fromm needed to answer was different...

Is ADHD Overdiagnosed? You Are Not Your Diagnosis

"We've made it advantageous to have a diagnosis." Is ADHD overdiagnosed? Nation asks a plain question first: somebody walks in convinced they have ADHD. How do you find out whether they do? Roger's answer is the diagnostic triage. There are two roads to a diagnosis. Psychometric testing, with the...

Why Losers Loved Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk never graduated from college. He applied to West Point, was rejected, and instead of trying again somewhere else, he built a career telling other people that college was the problem. That decision, and the audience it attracted, is one of the cleanest real-world examples of a psychol...

Identity Reclamation Part V: How 1% Micro Choice-Points and Guiding Foundations Overcome Safety Behaviors

Send us Fan Mail Why do massive, wholesale personal overhauls collapse after just a few days? In this episode of The Widening Your Aperture podcast we explore the behavioral psychology of identity reclamation and nervous system expansion. Learn why relying on depleting willpower keeps you trapped...

Identity Reclamation Part V: How 1% Micro Choice-Points and Guiding Foundations Overcome Safety Behaviors

Send us Fan Mail Why do massive, wholesale personal overhauls collapse after just a few days? In this episode of The Widening Your Aperture podcast we explore the behavioral psychology of identity reclamation and nervous system expansion. Learn why relying on depleting willpower keeps you trapped...

Why ADHD Grabs the $5 Every Single Time

I got 4,000 screenshots in my camera roll right now, and I’m being honest too, because I’m not about to stand up here during ADHD Awareness Month talking about brain science like I’m outside the problem. Receipts, book recommendations, tweets that changed my whole life, a video I swore I was gonn...

Narcissistic MAGA Boomer Wants Control Back

A woman stood up at a political rally and asked a sitting congressman to create a federal law that would force her adult daughter to let her see her grandchildren. Not a therapy session. Not a family mediator. Not a phone call to her daughter asking what went wrong. A federal law. That single mom...