Dr. Carol Tavris - Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

[@brianwilless1589]

@25:55 I had a friend tell me "everyone steals" I said "Oh, can I see your phone?" and I walked off with his phone. It took a bit but he was like "My phone!" and I replied "Everyone steals!" and he got it!!! Evaluate everything. Are you doing what you want others to do for if you are not you are subconsciously teaching them to do to you as you have done to them!

[@brianwilless1589]

He had a bike he "bought" knowing the guy stole it!!! I told him to go give it to the police and lose his 50 euro. He really wanted the bike so he was justifying it. We need to be the change we want to see.

[@z-z9965]

Looking forward to watching this

[@msrhuby]

Shared on Facebook.

[@Ploskkky]

Dr. Travis is very entertaining to listen to. Great lecture.

[@psyskeptic9979]

Tavris

[@marshawoods4983]

This is really enjoyable to listen to this lady

[@ankushmore8495]

Very informative 👏 👌

[@ThePharphis]

Great lecturer, though mostly straight-forward content. Still, I recall being very impressed by her TAM lecture 5 years ago. Maybe I was just less informed then since it would have been similar in content.

[@Volidee]

This woman is absolutely hilarious.

[@brianwilless1589]

There should be an open mindedness test and everyone should have to take it every six months. Certain jobs the results should be public.

[@brianwilless1589]

A humility test.

[@kimjolly7103]

Great information. Helps in putting into perspective, the Trump experiment.

[@DemigodIV]

Can someone explain the last joke to me?! is it a jab at an elephant in a room, or that its an action in a retirement comunity. I must be to dumb to get it! Best wishes.

[@curlykipper]

The woman was offering a night of love to anyone who could guess what she had in her palm. She had nothing in her palm, And so when a bidder jokingly shouts out, an elephant, she says, close enough, you win, because all she really wanted was someone to love her. If someone had shouted out 'a three-seat sofa' her answer would also have been, 'close enough'. Here's a joke I really like. It's from the film Annie Hall by Woody Allen Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."

[@davidwilkie9551]

...and may your God forgive you? Subtitle for the sequel.., for those who understand directly there are no such things as mistakes and their god-cause. Teach skepticism to children, abstract science to adults.., and never grow up completely.

[@joycewichman4232]

Now I understand why people when I tried to tell them about the scripture ,Acts 2:38 , which is very clear in every Bible in plain English, and they reject that truth because they’re afraid they’re wrong. Thank God I was searching for truth when someone told me about the truth in the Bible, and I was able to admit I was wrong and realized that repentance cannot be done by an infant, so we must be fully aware of our choice to be baptized.

[@oliversissonphone6143]

20:06 describes Trump perfectly

[@lynettefrohning3069]

Yes, the one who gave up his wages paid to him for being president and gave it to charities 👍😁

[@sunkintree]

@@lynettefrohning3069 Ah, confirmation bias. You do it so well

[@ET_LWO]

not sexist little boys...

[@matthewbarber4505]

I wonder if Dr. Tavris can now appreciate the mistakes she made in this lecture by making not-so-subtle digs at her political opponents (Republicans). Plenty of Democrats have engaged in Self-Justification as well. I am not defending Bush or Republicans, or trying to engage in Whataboutism, but rather trying to highlight how this type of behavior has contributed to our current era of politicization. I think Democrats are blind to how they have co-created the Trump effect, in that Trump is very much a backlash to decades of condescension by liberal elites. The main message of Dr. Tavris's book is not how these cognitive biases are directing the beliefs of those you consider irrational, but rather how they are influencing YOUR beliefs (and mine), and how we can all find ourselves defending beliefs beyond rational intelligence. To that end, the political jokes in this lecture are counterproductive. She even noted in the beginning how powerful political bias can be in coloring perception, but then seems to have lost that wisdom as she progressed through the material. There are many friends and relatives I would love to share this lecture with, because of how powerfully it is, but expect that the message would be rejected due to Dr. Tavris's own clear political biases. An alternative title to this talk could have been "Mistakes were made, but not by Democrats." In summary, Dr. Tavris would have been far more effective if she had left the political jokes at the door and focused more on personal examples and salient experiences we all have had