Building Better Sensemaking - Daniel Schmachtenberger - #348

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Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project and works in preventing global catastrophic risk. Having accurate sensemaking is a superpower in the 21st century. As the volume of information we need to sort through increases, the ability to distinguish signal from noise becomes ever more important. Given this, I wanted to ask Daniel exactly how he would advise someone to become an adept sensemaker. Expect to learn the characteristics that a good sensemaking agent should have, why the relationship between sense, meaning and choice making is so crucial, whether Daniel thinks that humanity is too emotional to reach our full potential, at what stage of personal actualisation we should begin to help the world and much more... Sponsors: Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 4.0 at https://www.manscaped.com/ (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:25) What Is a Sensemaking Agent? (14:53) Decision-making in Politics (18:43) Becoming Better at Sensemaking (22:44) The Underlying Principles of Sensemaking (44:12) Comfort in the Unknown (45:05) The Lab-leak Hypothesis (51:15) U-Turning Politicians (55:26) Common Pitfalls in Sensemaking (1:01:30) Fixing Consequential World Problems (1:12:15) Will Human Emotions Limit Civilisation’s Potential? (1:27:47) Should We Slow Technological Growth? (1:39:40) Impact of Social Media on Humanity (1:44:46) Sensemaking in Legislation (1:51:46) Creating a Silo Community (2:00:15) Constraints of a Mars Community (2:02:11) Where to Find Daniel Extra Stuff: Check out The Consilience Project - https://consilienceproject.org/  Check out Daniel's Website - https://civilizationemerging.com/ Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ Get in touch.  Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices