The Secret to Overcoming Imposter Syndrome - Mel Robbins - #1027

Yeah, so Keynesian Beauty Contest. Yes. People are asked to rank who is the most beautiful. Yes. But they're also then asked to rank who they think other people think is the most beautiful.

Yes. And then is that also the thing where you're then told that the stuff is screwed up and you're seeing the data and then you come back and you rank the same people differently because you were shown how other people rank it? Oh, maybe there might be a twist on it. So this guy's actually done it, but he's done it for the So he basically has the most incredible data set that shows that people agree on 88% of the things that are important in life.

Now, we may disagree on policy and how to get there, but people want exactly the same things. And right now we're in this massive moment of collective self-silencing. And part of the reason why, and it's super fascinating when he talks about the brain, since we're so wired for connection and social rejection feels like pain, that when you see that I I don't know what the stats are today because it's an old study, but you're probably familiar with that study that looked at Twitter and how I think it was like 80 or 90% of the content came from 10% of the accounts. And right now, if you look at what's going on in social, the 5% of the most extreme voices on both sides dominate 90% of the conversation.

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