You Are Not So Smart

This episode is about suicide prevention and awareness. Author Kelly Williams Brown tells us about her book, Easy Crafts for the Insane, in which she recounts how, after she gained fame and success as a NYT bestselling author, her world came apart. Then an anti-anxiety-drug-induced manic state nearly ended her life. 988 [https://988lifeline.org] Suicide Prevention Month [https://www.nami.org/get-involved/awareness-events/suicide-prevention-month/] Kelly Williams Brown's Website [https://www.kellywilliamsbrown.com] Easy Crafts for the Insane [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624688/easy-crafts-for-the-insane-by-kelly-williams-brown/] Kelly's Twitter [https://x.com/KWilliamsBrown] Kelly's Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/kellywilliamsbrown] Kelly in Vanity Fair [https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/05/she-invented-adulting-her-life-fell-apart] Gratitude Journaling Study [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8867461/] Seneca on Being Wretched [https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/02/seneca-consolation-to-helvia/] The Story of Kitted [https://kitted.app/article/kitted/the-story-of-kitted/0051] How Minds Change [https://www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome] David McRaney’s BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/davidmcraney.bsky.social] David McRaney’s Twitter [https://twitter.com/davidmcraney] YANSS Twitter [https://twitter.com/notsmartblog] Show Notes [https://you-are-not-so-smart.simplecast.com/episodes/www.youarenotsosmart.com] Newsletter [https://davidmcraney.substack.com/] Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart]

What is misinformation? How does it differ from disinformation or just plain ‘ole propaganda? How do we protect ourselves from people with nefarious intentions using all of these things to affect our thoughts, feelings, and behavior? That’s what we discuss in this episode with Matthew Facciani, social scientist and author of Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How it Spreads, and What We Can Do About It. Matthew Facciani's Website [https://www.matthewfacciani.com] The Misguided Podcast [https://www.matthewfacciani.com/podcast] Misguided [https://www.matthewfacciani.com/book] Kitted Shop [https://kitted.shop/referred-by-davidmcraney66] The Story of Kitted [https://kitted.app/article/kitted/the-story-of-kitted/0051] How Minds Change [https://www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome] David McRaney's BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/davidmcraney.bsky.social] David McRaney’s Twitter [https://twitter.com/davidmcraney] YANSS Twitter [https://twitter.com/notsmartblog] Show Notes [www.youarenotsosmart.com] Newsletter [https://davidmcraney.substack.com] Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart]

Two psychologists who study love, relationships, and human mating behavior pick apart the movie "The Notebook" and tell us what it gets right and what it gets wrong when it comes to portraying how humans actually, truly think, feel, and behave. Eli Finkel and Paul Eastwick are the cohosts of the Love Factually podcast, a show that discusses the romantic/scientific accuracy of movies, and on this episode we listen in as they examine one of the most popular romance movies of all time. Love Factually Website [https://www.lovefactuallypod.com] Love Factually Substack [https://lovefactually.substack.com/p/episode-11-the-notebook-2004] Eli Finkel's Website [https://elifinkel.com/about-eli] Paul Eastwick's Website [https://pauleastwick.com/pauleastwick] Kitted Shop [https://kitted.shop/referred-by-davidmcraney66] The Story of Kitted [https://kitted.app/article/kitted/the-story-of-kitted/0051] How Minds Change [https://www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome] David McRaney's BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/davidmcraney.bsky.social] David McRaney’s Twitter [https://twitter.com/davidmcraney] YANSS Twitter [https://twitter.com/notsmartblog] Show Notes [www.youarenotsosmart.com] Newsletter [https://davidmcraney.substack.com] Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart]

In this episode, we sit down with therapist Britt Frank to discuss the intention action gap, the psychological term for the chasm between what you very much intend to do and what you tend to do instead. It turns out, there's a well-researched psychological framework that includes a term for when you have a stated, known goal – a change you'd like to make in your life – something you wake up intending to finally do or get started doing, but then don't do while knowing full well you are actively not doing what you ought and wish you had done by now. After we discuss this phenomenon and how to deal with it, we get into procrastination and how to escape all manner of dead-end behavioral loops.  The Getting Unstuck Workbook [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/731229/the-getting-unstuck-workbook-by-britt-frank-lscw/] The Science of Stuck [https://www.scienceofstuck.com] Kitted Shop [https://kitted.shop/referred-by-davidmcraney66] The Story of Kitted [https://kitted.app/article/kitted/the-story-of-kitted/0051] How Minds Change [https://www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome] David McRaney’s Twitter [https://twitter.com/davidmcraney] YANSS Twitter [https://twitter.com/notsmartblog] Show Notes [www.youarenotsosmart.com] Newsletter [https://davidmcraney.substack.com] Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart]

Sarah Stein Lubrano tells us about her new book, Don't Talk About Politics, which urges us not to lose hope or become frozen in frustration when it comes to polarization and faulty discourse because the good news is that we don't just know, scientifically, why the marketplace of ideas is currently failing us, we know how, scientifically, we can do better.  Sarah Stein Lubrano's Website [https://www.sarahsteinlubrano.com] Don't Talk About Politics [https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dont-talk-about-politics-9781399413923/] Motivated Numeracy Paper [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319992] How Minds Change [https://www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome] David McRaney’s Twitter [https://twitter.com/davidmcraney] YANSS Twitter [https://twitter.com/notsmartblog] Show Notes [www.youarenotsosmart.com] Newsletter [https://davidmcraney.substack.com/] Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart]