#60 Corruptible Part I - Book Summary

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In this episode, we delve into the insightful pages of ‘Corruptible’ by the esteemed Brian Klaas, unravelling the profound essence of its central theme.

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• The 4 elements of corruption
• The Evolution of Power
• What kind of person is drawn to power
• The Power Delusion
• The Recipe for Darkness - The Dark Triad
• Bad Systems or Bad People?
• Why It Appears That Power Corrupts

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Chapters

00:00:00-Intro

00:00:16-Overview

00:02:07-Part 1 - Introduction

00:04:05-The Stanford Prison Experiment

00:09:54-The 4 elements of corruption

00:12:01-Part 2 -The Evolution of Power

00:12:20-Studying Chimpanzees

00:14:47-How humans differ from Chimpanzees a ‘fairness’ study with children

00:19:17-The changing logic of Violence

00:20:57-Reverse Dominance Hierarchy

00:24:47-The return of power and hierarchy

00:25:08-The Changing Logic of War

00:31:29-Agricultural shifts

00:33:12-The Benefits of Hierarchy

00:36:03- Part 3 - Moths to a Flame

00:36:30-Survivorship Bias

00:38:58-Application of survivorship bias to Power

00:41:41-Self-selection bias

00:42:19-What happens when a position of power is unattractive?

00:43:16-Fixing police brutality

00:50:10-Part 4-The Power Delusion

00:51:22-Signalling and Status

00:53:27-Masculinity and Leadership

01:03:15-Masculine leaders and threats study

01:05:57-Friends, enemies or Strangers

01:12:58-Part 5 - Petty Tyrants and Psychopaths

01:13:46-The Recipe for Darkness - The Dark Triad

01:13:58-The Biology of Empathy

01:16:34-The empathy of Psychopaths

01:18:31-Hiring rewards the dark triad

01:18:58-Confidence and competency

01:21:03-Part 6 - Bad Systems or Bad People?

01:21:36-The fundamental attribution error

01:23:26-Enforcement, Culture and belief of corruption

01:27:03-Inheriting bad systems

01:27:54-Part 7 - Why It Appears That Power Corrupts

01:28:47-Dirty hands

01:35:42-Learning to be good at being bad

01:37:59-Opportunity knocks

01:41:46-Under the Microscope

01:46:49-Debrief

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