Loserthink How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

My next book, Loserthink, tried to teach people how to think better, especially if they were displaying their thinking on social media. That one didn't put much of a dent in the universe, but I tried.

His new book is called Loser Think, How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America.

I was just using your example of or your idea to hey take a photo of this page of the book when someone engages in loser think, show them the page that it's from and it will take emotion out of the equation.

People don't like to be shown that they're wrong but you have to admit that showing them a printed book that somebody thought was worth publishing gives it a little bit of under credibility.

So loser think isn't about being uninformed it's about unproductive thinking right?

If you have certainty about a complicated issue that should be a little little signal that maybe maybe you should back that up a little bit maybe you should have a little less certainty a little more humility and that's something I talk about as well.

His new book is called Loser Think, How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America.

So loser think the news great title by the way, I'm sure that's one of those where people think ah I do that I'm going to pick that up.

I was just using your example of or your idea to hey take a photo of this page of the book when someone engages in loser think, show them the page that it's from and it will take emotion out of the equation.

People don't like to be shown that they're wrong but you have to admit that showing them a printed book that somebody thought was worth publishing gives it a little bit of under credibility.

Yeah, so loser think isn't about being uninformed it's about unproductive thinking right?

So loser think the news great title by the way, I'm sure that's one of those where people think ah I do that I'm going to pick that up.

I was just using your example of or your idea to hey take a photo of this page of the book when someone engages in loser think, show them the page that it's from and it will take emotion out of the equation.

Yeah, well it's better than saying here's everything that's wrong with your thoughts and then they go well I don't like you so now I'm going to poke holes and that is just like you should read this page and find out what is objectively wrong with your line of reasoning.

So loser think isn't about being uninformed it's about unproductive thinking right?

I love this from the book because it explains so much of what's going on in public discourse yeah if you have no good argument just say well you're saying that because you're a racist or you're saying that because you're uneducated there's a million ways to do that instead of just saying here's all these reasons that you're actually wrong.