Robert Trivers
person on 3 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes · said 6 times in 4 episodes since 2017
the Knowledge Project 3 
American Optimist 2 
Lenny's Podcast 1
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McAfee: Overconfidence evolved as a feature to attract social coalitions
“Robert Trivers, the most important evolutionary biologist since Darwin. Trivers said the reason we are overconfident is because confidence is valuable for individual members of a very social species. If you believe that you're really, really good, you will app…”
Sutherland: Humans Are Post-Rationalizing Animals Who Invent Reasons After Emotional Reactions
“We're not really a rational animal, we're a post-rationalizing animal. And that most of the time when we give a reason for an emotional state, it's a plausible sounding narrative that's actually Invented in the aftermath of us experiencing that emotion”