The Jordan Harbinger Show

I think about this or as in sweat Martin who wrote the classic piece Power and Plenty back in 1909 here's what he said about this self control is the very essence of character to be able to look a person straight in the eye calmly and deliberately without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation gives a sense of power which nothing else can give

I think about this or as in sweat Martin who wrote the classic piece Power and Plenty back in 1909 here's what he said about this self control is the very essence of character to be able to look a person straight in the eye calmly and deliberately without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation gives a sense of power which nothing else can give to feel that you are always not sometimes master of yourself gives a dignity and strength to you.

But the idea is I'm actually suggesting that the word plasticity isn't quite the right word, but nonetheless the word we use as a field.

But the idea comes from the material plastic you can mold into shape and it holds on to that shape.

one analogy that I used in my book in Cognito was that it's like the CEO of a major company.

But one analogy that I used in my book in Cognito was that it's like the CEO of a major company.

I loved the book and you know it is great, you did a great job recording it a lot of times when authors record their own book they get all offended when the publisher is like yeah we are going to hire a professional right?

But you did a really good job because I think a large part or at least a part of this book that is magical seems like an overstatement but I am going to let it throw it out there because it is a good book.

Yeah, I am so glad. I know it was so glad to get the opportunity to record it so there wouldn't be just some other person stepping on my jokes and not landing the punchlines.

the book is subtitled a theory of awkwardness but it kind of should be like any theory of awkwardness this is one of them yeah I think that awkwardness also kind of comes from when the self you're trying to present in a certain situation is shown to be incompatible with reality in some way so you know I'm not sure if you can do that.

It's a great read really enjoyed this one and if you enjoyed this don't forget to thank Melissa on Twitter

I loved the book and you know it is great, you did a great job recording it a lot of times when authors record their own book they get all offended when the publisher is like yeah we are going to hire a professional right?

But you did a really good job because I think a large part or at least a part of this book that is magical seems like an overstatement but I am going to let it throw it out there because it is a good book.

And that makes it a really special kind of piece.

Yeah, I am so glad. I know it was so glad to get the opportunity to record it so there wouldn't be just some other person stepping on my jokes and not landing the punchlines.

The book title is cringe worthy a theory of awkwardness It's a great read really enjoyed this one and if you enjoyed this don't forget to thank Melissa on Twitter

What surprised me about the book when I first picked it up was that we're in low grade cyber conflict with Russia, China, and Iran.

In a terrifying twist, we'll also uncover why cyber war is very likely to lead to conventional war and loss of life potentially even large scale conflict.

So when we wrote the book cyber war 10 years ago and said all this stuff was going to happen, people said oh that's fanciful. You've been reading too many Clancy novels.

But it wasn't even back then because I remember when I was probably man 13 or 14 and I was messing around on the internet with hackers and stuff like that.

the book is called The Fifth Domain defending our country our companies and ourselves in the age of cyber threats

What surprised me about the book when I first picked it up was that we're in low grade cyber conflict with Russia, China, and Iran.

If you want to know how we get this guest roster, well it's not just about my business relationships. I've got killer personal relationships that I manage with hundreds, thousands of people.

When we wrote the book cyber war 10 years ago and said all this stuff was going to happen, people said oh that's fanciful. You've been reading too many Clancy novels.

It's largely about the sensors right so if you're running something at a red line speed and you tell that sensor to say hey we're only at half the speed and people keep turning it up with a hardware control keeps turning it up way past what it's safely can operate at because it's causing itself to lie it's causing your speedometer to lie to you.

The book is called The Fifth Domain defending our country our companies and ourselves in the age of cyber threats.

I teach that God is a God of truth we're agents of God but we're lying because everyone's in Satan's world that's the that's the wrap that's the rhetoric yeah but it does not compute like how are we going to build a perfect world based on lies and mind control like even if we took over the world how would we how would that work

I teach that God is a God of truth we're agents of God but we're lying because everyone's in Satan's world that's the that's the wrap that's the rhetoric yeah but it does not compute like how are we going to build a perfect world based on lies and mind control like even if we took over the world how would we how would that work

consult with an employment lawyer ASAP...even read that book...he talks about documenting all the crappy things that narcissists and bad people do to you because they're not documenting all of their stuff...

Make sure you document everything, journal it, whatever. Listen to the Joan of Arc episode, perhaps even read that book.

Graham Wood who we talked to about his book about ISIS. I love that guy and we keep in touch and I'll reach out and go, Hey, have you written anything new recently?

Graham Wood who we talked to about his book about ISIS. I love that guy and we keep in touch and I'll reach out and go, Hey, have you written anything new recently?

I've talked a lot about jelsie wrote a book about jealousy called the dangers passion but one of the things is that jealousy is activated when there is a threat and it doesn't have to be an immediate threat but a threat lurking on the horizon of relationships.

...and I've talked a lot about jelsie wrote a book about jealousy called the dangers passion...

and I remember that when Adam and I wrote our first book it was just sort of advice book years ago

and I remember that when Adam and I wrote our first book it was just sort of advice book years ago

The book 'Scarcity' by Michael Easter is a fascinating read.

Everyone knows that everything is fine in moderation so then the question is well why do we all suck so bad at it?

When you think about how humans evolved everything we needed to survive in the past it was all scarce and it was all hard to find right so everything from food to possessions to information even influence and status the number of people we could influence all hard to find all scares and we live like that for basically two and a half million years and it wasn't until very recently in the grand scheme of time that we started to get abundance of all these things that were sort of built to create so in the past it always made sense to eat more food than you needed if you had the opportunity to hoard items to try and get as much information as you can just keep seeking information all that would give you a survival advantage and then our environments split and now we have an abundance of all this stuff and we're still compelled to just consume and consume all this stuff for more.

I have to tell you, I'm way more scared of nuclear conflict than I was before reading this book.

I mean the fundamental premise of the book is to demonstrate in appalling detail about just how terrifying Nuclear War would be.

I guess I thought I had and I'm sure I'm not the only one I thought we had way more checks and balances and defense mechanisms and like your book was like actually.

And we'll get into all this but it's like actually if one person gets really suicidal or homicidal there's nothing pretty much anyone can do about it and if there's like a weird accident because somebody had a miscalibrated instrument would the worst all dead or wishing we were dead.

I mean you would think in a democracy you would have like you said more checks and balances but not only that thing that shocks me always is that the fundamental premise behind Nuclear Wars that it's so presidential authority.

I'm arguing in the book, in The Anxious Generation, is that now we know, we didn't know in 2012 when we were letting our kids out, but now we know we've overprotected our kids in the real world and we've underprotected them online.

And so I'd like to give your listeners, especially those who are parents, the word thrills. Thrills are biologically important. Kids need thrills.

One of the most surprising graphs in the book is when we found data on hospital admissions for fractures.

So the CDC tracks who's going to hospitals and for what.

And so they have all this data on who's admitted to hospitals for broken arms and legs, you know, broken bones.

It is one of these things where my world view was upended writing the book and I think a lot of readers have said the same to me.

It says, terrible act of insane woman. Now we probably wouldn't describe it the same way today, but basically this woman, Clara Maudlin Janssen, probably had postpartum depression in 1905 after having four kids in about five years.

And then when you start to play that forward, every person I've met in my life, every conversation I've had, every podcast interview I've done is predicated on the mass murder of four children.

The most infuriating thing that people said to him relentlessly afterwards was everything happens for a reason.

And it's like, no, you don't control this. The illusion that you have over the ability to control things in your life, that is useful up to a degree. But if you really believe in it to the point where you are now worried, you're obsessing over this actually, you're now no longer focusing on the right thing at all because it's really, I mean, they have to do this, right?

I really related to your story at the beginning of the book, which is you go to a party right post pandemic and you're like, oh I'm the fat guy at the party and I myself got quite fat during the pandemic.

This book has been a bit different to my other books for me in that the minute I learned about the existence of these drugs I felt really conflicted and it comes from that moment at this party, right? So I remember it so vividly.

So to get to the bottom of this as you allude to for a year I took this drug and I went on this big journey all over the world from Iceland to Minneapolis to Okinawa in the south of Japan to interview the leading experts in the world on this question, the biggest critics, the biggest defenders, scientists who made the breakthroughs that led to these drugs, the people who've been thinking about how is it going to affect our culture and our economy?

This is why actually some doctors are now prescribing alongside the drugs a diet plan not at the time typical diet plan to cut down but a diet plan to make sure you eat enough right?

I'm gonna tell a little bit about my own experience in relations, that's not the abuse component but something else, and then talk about the beasting, the evidence about abuse.