Dr Robert Lustig has fostered a global discussion of metabolic health and nutrition. He speaks with us abut why you should "speak to the ventriloquist and not the dummy", how "pleasure is not happiness", how "90% of the work is done in 10% of the time" and more. Hosted by Duff Watkins.
00:00 - Intro
09:47 - Lesson 1: Self-soothing is required, since no one else will
11:37 - Lesson 2: Pleasure is not happiness — the more pleasure you seek, the more unhappy you get
17:59 - Lesson 3: Anxiety is excitement about the future; but the future never comes .
23:45 - Lesson 4: You know more than everybody else, so be humbler than everybody else .
32:03 - Lesson 5: Institutions don’t love you back
34:03 - Lesson 6: First-class people hire first-class people; second-class people hire third-class people
35:02 - Lesson 7: Speak to the ventriloquist, not the dummy
36:31 - Lesson 8: 90% of the work gets done in 10% of the time .
37:50 - Lesson 9: Marketing uses information to espouse your point of view; propaganda uses disinformation to espouse your point of view
41:08 - Lesson 10: There is only one dogma, and that is, there is no dogma .
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