What Makes Great Leaders & How to Live an Extraordinary Life | Dr. Jared Diamond

People regularly look for personal generalizations, personality generalizations about leaders. Perhaps the commonest generalization is that leaders have to be charismatic. Nonsense. Some leaders are charismatic. Stown. Augusto Pinochet, the dictator of Chile. totally uncharismatic. There are about thirty seven ways to be an effective leader of which charisma is is one. And any

How can we generalize about leaders personal? There's some generalizations about leaders, but not personality generalizations because there are different ways to be a Effective leader.

Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is Dr. Jared Diamond. Dr. Jared Diamond is a professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles. He's done research in biology, anthropology, and frankly in so many areas that there really isn't an appropriate title for him. He's also a renowned author of books such as Guns, Germs, and Steel.

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