The Weird Psychology of Communication, Self-control, and Gossip: What evolution teaches us about communicating your needs clearly
The evolutionary psychology of communication that controls your life and mindsets today and why
In the noble quest to understand our minds, today we take a new angle. We track how grunts turned into gossip, myths, and the weird human habit of blushing when we screw up.
You’ll see why your brain is basically a compression algorithm: squeezing an entire inner universe through a tiny mouth-shaped funnel. We go from jellyfish nerve nets to gossip networks, and beyond. How shared stories make money, nations and even your job “real”.
Along the way, we poke at shame, status, and why your reputation now travels faster than any spear ever did. It’s part history, psychology, mindset lesson, and part mirror.
You’ll probably recognise more of yourself than you’d like:
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Use “compression” as a mental model to communicate ideas more clearly.
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Spot how gossip and reputation are driving your current career decisions.
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Rewrite one story you’ve inherited about status, success, or failure.
Listen in, and update the story your brain is running in the background.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Little Miracles and Airplanes
02:26 Growth Mindset Introduction
03:32 Framing the Four-Part Journey
05:49 The Compression Problem
09:30 Act 1 – Cognitive Basis of Language
09:30 Biological History of Languages
14:27 The Interconnected Brain
18:03 Complex Words and Abstract Ideas
21:50 Ad Break
22:13 Words, Planning, and Teamwork
23:10 Act 2 – Gossip, Myths & Religion
23:10 Gossip and the Glue of Society
26:48 Myths and Shared Delusions
31:42 Early Religions, Animism and Cave Art
34:39 Act 3 – Self-Domestication
34:45 Shame, Blushing, and Human Civility
38:10 Invitation to Continue on How to Change the World
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