an idea from a brilliant psychologist. at university of alabama. what he says is he s trying to solve the puzzle of why are we so bad at knowing when we re being deceived. we are bad. there s no question. human beings are not good as this. his answer is because it doesn t make sense because you think evolution would have prepared us. you would have thought people who were good at telling, deceiving them would have an advantage. but that is not the case. his point is the reason for this is actually the evolutionary advantage is being like your mom. that if you trust everyone, your life is so much more efficient. and you re capable of doing so much more. and capable of forming so many more meaningful relationships and you can start businesses and put your child on the school bus in the morning and not worry about whether the bus driver is who he says he is.
a woman in as a member or leader. and having done that feels free never to have a woman again as a leader. it s like you or you hire one black person and say look, ooip not racist and never hire another one. or that s the idea doing a small good act and frees you up to return to your old ways. important idea because i think sometimes we re fooled into thinking that when changes happen, when one small change happens it s a sign that many more good things will happen. it s not the way history works. sometimes a small good thing happens and allows society to take two steps back. applications for the political world? president obama. sure. a black president. and then okay, i have demonstrated i am a open minded liberal person. and then immediately after wards, the country goes in another direction.
i came close to talking about politics. you re a big spy fan. what you thought about the latest about this high level russian source. that s gold. yeah. it s extraordinary that i tell in my book two spy stories. i pick them at random. they have a basic the other thing is the best thing is in spy novels they re all about how brilliant the spy is. right? the spy is a mast ere mind and evil general use. this and that. james bond idea that the you read a lot of spy novels. all of them. the world spy i have read it. in real life the spy is success is not due to the genius. it s due to everyone els blindness. like the spy novels all have it backwards. most are really lame.
and said fantasy football of course. it s the most fantastic thing about sports. secondly it kind of does it makes me love pete buttigieg. it s not a political statement. you have to focus on sports. he s a legit, he can talk fantasy football. my hat is off to him. i don t know what that is. i have ideas. but none of them are close to the reality. in addition to reading like novels in norway. he s watching monday night football. there s a couple things you said about politics and one of the most disturbing lessons is the u.s. isn t open to the idea of a woman in power. do you think that was something specific to clinton being in the past she was unlikable. people were going vote for her. some did not necessarily love her. do you think that is still the