power

7 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 21, 2018 by Dacher Keltner · across every show →

Everything said about power, oldest first

Feb 21, 2018 negative
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Acquiring Power Biologically Impairs Empathy and Degrades Foundational Social Skills
“Once you feel powerful... You lose all the social skills that got you power in the first place, you know, and, you know, we show when I feel powerful, I read people's emotions less effectively, I interrupt them more, And then all hell breaks loose, and you kno…”
Dacher Keltner Feb 21, 2018 ▶ 50:48 #29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest
Mar 13, 2018 positive
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Heffernan: Women view power as orchestration rather than domination
“It isn't that women don't like power at all, but that we think of it differently. So many of the very, very successful women I interviewed for that book, and for my second book, which is about the rise of female entrepreneurship, women on top, Thought of power…”
Margaret Heffernan Mar 13, 2018 ▶ 55:04 #30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
Mar 13, 2018 negative
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Heffernan: Power is disruptive and leaders should avoid using it
“Power is incredibly disruptive, and you have to be very wary of it and try super hard not ever to have to use it.”
Margaret Heffernan Mar 13, 2018 ▶ 32:19 #30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
Feb 2, 2021
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Parrish: Centralizing power lets leaders blame execution when things fail
“By keeping the power, we also have the excuse that somebody didn't execute properly, you know, like, you know, so we have, not only do we have this story in the narrative of how important we are on one hand, we also have the story in the narrative where when t…”
Shane Parrish Feb 2, 2021 ▶ 1:10:01 #102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us
Jun 17, 2025
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Real power requires creating your own network rather than joining others
“First principle of real power is don't join other people's networks. Create your own and be the one everything flows through.”
Shane Parrish Jun 17, 2025 ▶ 55:38 Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
Feb 3, 2026 negative
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Ovitz: Entertainment power lists are nonsense and power is an ephemeral lease
“I thought these power lists that they developed in the entertainment business were just sheer nonsense because there's no such thing as power. It doesn't exist. And when people would say this one's the second most or the 10th most or you're the most powerful, …”
Michael Ovitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 27:26 Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
Mar 17, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Teskey: AI data centers and power are Brookfield's fastest-growing investment theme
“And that at a simple level is, is the data centers and the power that supports them. And that is the largest and fastest growing investment theme at Brookfield.”
Connor Teskey Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 53:31 Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
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