George Mack
@george__mack • 310,809 subscribers
I think agency might be the most important personality trait of the 21st century. Read my essay 'High Agency' at https://t.co/3lfQgXXltI
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8. The Rise Of Obesity In America: You can only appreciate this epidemic by watching this video...
George Mack916,996 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
25. The Importance Of Exercise The mortality gap between a smoker and non-smoker: 40%. The mortality gap between the bottom 25% of exercise fitness and top 2%: 400% The best marketing minds of their generation created anti-smoking ads -- where are the pro exercise ads?
George Mack672,506 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Just recorded a new Modern Wisdom podcast with Chris Williamson, Shaan Puri and Michael 1:24 The Worst Phone Call of All Time 8:37 Sylvester Stallone Brute Forced Success 11:30 Are GLP-1s Killing Romance? 18:29 Did Djokovic Take Discipline Too Far? 21:56 The Self-Help Trap 25:04 We’re Just Betting On Everything Now 36:02 The World’s Best Tom Cruise Impersonator 42:23 India’s Biggest Fetish 46:09 Insecurity Is Actually An Advantage 49:18 Gossip Is More Useful Than You Think 52:20 The Most Important 2 Seconds of Your Life 1:05:49 Have Adults Forgotten How To Play? 1:10:11 When People Take Stoicism Too Far 1:16:21 The Most Uncomfortable Mukbang Ever 1:24:34 2 Beers, 2 Cigs, 2 Rubik’s Cubes World Record 1:30:43 Florida Man Does It Again 1:34:35 Ice Packs in the Sauna
George Mack64,612 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Who is a high agency person you've never heard of? Yukio Shige. The man who's prevented 789 suicides. One of my favorite questions to ask: "What movie should Hollywood be making instead of endless remakes like Transformers 12?" Yukio's story is top of that list. Every day, he goes to a notorious suicide location in Japan: Tōjinbō cliffs. Why? 1. Yukio's Motivation Yukio was in the police. Towards the end of his career, he became exhausted from fishing dead bodies from the ocean During one of his last shifts before retirement, he met a married couple on the cliffs. They had mountains of debt. And wanted to end their lives by jumping off the cliffs. Yukio managed to convince them not to -- and took them to the local authorities thinking they'd help. 5 days later - he received a letter: "You were very helpful. The authorities didn't do anything... So we'll say goodbye here" The couple took their lives -- and it broke Yukio's heart. Upon retiring, rather than sit back and relax as he deserved... He decided to go to the cliffs every day. Using his binoculars, he would look out for anyone who looked suicidal. 2. The Problem The cliffs became a sick tourist attraction due to the number of suicides: 1. It made it difficult to spot the suicidal people 2. It was marketing itself as a place for suicide -- causing more suicidal people to go. 3. The High Agency Solution Here's how he spots the suicidal amongst the tourist crowd: • Won't be smiling or taking photos • No cameras or souvenirs. • Dark fashion colors -- and stood in more dangerous positions Anyone who looks alarming - he will go over and start a conversation with them. It's common that grown adults will just break down in tears immediately on the spot. Yukio calms them down and invites them into his cafe for a chat. He then keeps regular contact with them -- and often speaks to their family members. His cafe is always open whenever they want to talk. He keeps track of every life he's saved: The last public number was 789. ------ The below clip is from Nas Daily. If you want to go much deeper and see the real story - I highly recommend a 45-minute documentary I've found. It only has 40K views on it. I'll attach it below.
George Mack420,897 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
My high agency question made it onto the Joe Rogan Experience! Chris: "My friend George has this great question where he says: You're stuck in a 3rd world prison and have one phone call -- who do you ring?..." Joe: "I don't know man. That's a good question... Also, I don't have anyone's number" 😂😂😂
George Mack99,343 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Discipline is overpriced. Incentives are underpriced. New Year's resolutions have a reported ∼91% failure rate. People who announce they're going to run a marathon for charity have an incredible success rate. Why does this gap exist? Incentives > Discipline. The person announcing publicly they're going to run a marathon for charity puts the Tyler Durden gun behind their head. The following forces act like a gun for the marathon runner: • Desire to be consistent • Sunk cost fallacy • Social shame • Being seen as a good person • A cause bigger than themself Discipline will almost always lose to incentives for good behaviour, and negative consequences for bad behaviour. Thought experiment: If the reward for completing new years resolutions was a billion dollars, and the consequence for failing was the death penalty -- what % completion would New Years resolutions have? If you make the reward and consequences big enough -- 100x will power is born. There's few people in history more resourceful than a crack cocaine addict sourcing their next hit. Here's some iconic Tyler Durden gun incentive schemes: 1. The Ticking Clock Elon Musk proposed to George Hotz the following to build vision system for Tesla auto pilot: $12 million payment if it was delivered the next day. For every month that passes where it's not delivered, the payment would be reduced by $1 million. If you had an incentive scheme where dollars disappear like a ticking clock each minute, would you need discipline? Procrastination would not be possible. 2. The Tattoo Mr. Beast and his friend was regularly skipping workouts so they created a bet: If one of them skipped a workout -- they had to get a tattoo of the other person. Guess how many workouts they skipped that year? Zero. ----- Things that usually outperform discipline: • Accountability • Publicly announced deadlines (YC demo day is a great example of this) • Bet money with friends on the activity • Raise money for charity • Coach to report into Discipline is a candle flame. Incentives and consequences are a nuclear reactor. Why rely solely on something that has an alleged 91% failure rate? You wouldn't do this for surgeons, condoms or airplanes. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again -- whilst expecting different results. Raymond K Hessel doesn't need discipline.
George Mack127,845 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Low agency in a 2 minute video: Derren Brown creates a compliance test He places 3 actors into a room The actors stand up and sit down when the bell rings He then introduces real people into the room It's fascinating AND terrifying how many people blindly copy the other people -- simply because. Mimetic low agency OS takes over. You can see from the initial look on their faces that they know it's not right -- but they copy and paste the room -- because they don't want to stand out. Some thoughts: 1. Look at the guys face at 0.50 It's the emperors new clothes moment He can see everyone is naked But he feels naked by not going along with the tribe 2. We need a word for that moment at 0.50 Is there a good english word for that moment? It's the feeling of looking wrong socially being more important than being wrong in reality. The first step to identifying that moment is having a word 3. The blind spot trap What is fascinating about this video is that nobody watches this, including myself, thinks they would do this But the odds are, that's not true... That blind spot is part of the trap. What a video.
George Mack53,435 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
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