what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution and if you new to my channel I like to talk
about stuff that I'm interested in alright and some things I'm really
interested in or mental health addiction recovery but I'm absolutely fascinated
with psychology and to get a little bit more specific I'm really interested in
learning more about the cognitive and behavioral aspects of psychology and
basically that means why do we think the way we think why do we do the things
that we do and something that has always been something that is on my mind is why
are we so irrational right why do we think such irrational things why do we
do such irrational things so those of you who don't know me I am a recovering
drug addict so I asked myself I look back at my history and I try to
understand why did I keep snorting these pills and destroy my life when I knew it
was bad for me right I work at a rehab for a little over three years I I
watched this play out with thousands of clients sharing their stories and you
know the hundreds of clients who would relapse and say why would they do this
this is so irrational right like you were in treatment you you you saw that
things were going well why would you do this but in the bottle scope of things
why do we stick up for people and completely neglect the facts of a
situation right like I think a great example is look at Donald Trump right uh
Trump supporters I don't think they're stupid but I asked myself how do
intelligent people neglect the facts and just completely support this guy and
make excuses for these behaviors right so I was recently reading this book
called mistakes were made but not by meais by these two amazing psychologists
and it actually brought to memory this situation with logan paul and his career that
surprisingly is on my mind a lot i've mentioned in previous videos all right
so let's discuss let's get inside the minds
of Logan Paul fans but again like the reason that I love learning about this
stuff and the reason why I try to look at the way I'm judging others is because
I beep I flip it and I'm like okay Chris how are you doing the same things right
so anyways those of you who don't remember Logan Paul he he used to do a
lot of vlogs I think you just started vlogging again
anyways he took a little trip to Japan and he terrorized the the whole area of
Japan and he ended up taking a trip to the suicide forest alright and yeah
something that I'm really interested in too by the way
and I want to do some research is is yeah why why does Japan have such high
suicide rates because a lot of the research I do you know a lot of people
compare you know the culture of Japan and they say oh look look how they
handle these situations it's so much better and like that makes sense to me
but what doesn't make sense is why suicide rates are so high anyways back
to this story uh Logan Paul he ends up finding a body in Japan while he's
vlogging and he films that body right and a lot of a lot of backlash happened
it caused you know a ripples throughout mainstream media I think you know that
was the start of one of the many ad pocalypse is and everything like that
but everybody seen they're like how could somebody go there and film a body
right and it was like in the thumbnail and it was up for like I don't know a
while before YouTube actually took it down I think if I remember the story
correctly it was even on the trending page right so when this happens you
think nobody absolutely nobody could support this dude there's not one person
out there who would say what this dude did was okay right so he'll know how
long it was after like this story was like two or three years ago
with me all right I'm trying to tap into the little ol hippocampus and pull some
memories out all right but a few days after happened I believe it was he came
on and he had made an apology video right and it was just completely out of
character of um a lot of people criticized it and said you know scripted
or whatever and like me I don't like judging apologies because they are what
they are you know I think we get to in the nitty-gritty of what what they
should have said what they shouldn't have said it
da da da da because an apology especially to that massive amount of
people like you're never gonna please anybody
but anyways here's the part that's always on my mind because he says this
so after that after that after he says that after he tells his fans not to
defend him not to stick up for him because he he did such an atrocious
thing like the Logan Paul crew like all his fans out there were like screw that
Logan you're dumb we're gonna stick up for you and I'm like what right like
this is this is like the pinnacle of human irrationality right telling people
don't stick up for me I screwed up and they told you the person they idolized
no screw you I'm gonna stick up for you and that baffled me and like this this
is all my mind a lot I still remember like it was yesterday the reaction on
Twitter and everything like that from his fans away well like but it's not
about this constantly being on my mind but when I think of like human
irrationality I always think of that situation always so anyways in mistakes
were made but not by me basically the entire book is about our good old friend
called cognitive dissonance alright this is a psychological theory I might dive
into it a little bit more and kind of explain the the roots of it but
behaviorism with BF Skinner was a really big
thing and then this dude I can't remember his name off the top of my head
but he came around he's like hey I think that you know behaviorism is cool and
all but let's look at this dissonance right so what is cognitive dissonance
cognitive dissonance is when you have two ideas in your head that don't quite
go together right so what happens is is we start to
justify the one that has the least amount of pain for us right like this is
how we lie to ourselves and our brain just creates this whole story because
our brain doesn't like being in this dissonant state right it's like no let
me figure this out so when I look at the Logan Paul situation and his fans doing
this like dissonance theory would assume or predict that what happens is is most
people most people unless you're struggling with like severe depression
or a lack of self-esteem or anything most people aren't gonna say I'm stupid
right most of us think that we're smart most of us think that we're intelligent
right so put yourself in the shoes of a Logan Paul fan when this is all going
down and watching this dude that you look up to admit he was wrong and
admitting he's screwed up so in that situation we have to realize it's not so
much about how they view Logan Paul it's how they were viewing themselves okay so
we have this sense of self right I am a good person I'm a giving person I'm a
caring person right I am a smart person okay so when Logan Paul admitting that
this was a terrible thing the fans in their head is saying well how could I
like somebody who did something so terrible right see the dissonance I'm a
smart person so why would I follow somebody who did something so stupid so
that is when we start to create this story in our head
right and I would imagine obviously there's no way for me to you know know
this for sure this is just a theory right is that no I'm a smart person when
I supported him after this happened that was a smart move
so the most logical thing to do is to double down on this idea and still
defend Logan Paul even though he doesn't want me to defend him
right see like I said it's not so much about Logan Paul but it's the way the
audience was seeing themselves there's a great story from another book that I
absolutely love it's called the craving mind written by dr. Judson Brewer he's a
great dude I interviewed him on my channel first started years ago right
but anyways in his book he explains this story about like he loved like the Tour
de France like I've never met anybody who loves the Tour de France but he
loved the Tour de France and when Lance Armstrong like Lance Armstrong was like
his dude and when Lance Armstrong got caught doping and he admitted to doping
right judge shares his story in his book about how he's like no no that that
can't be true right like that there's got to be some mistake maybe he was
pressured into saying this Devin added all these things right and there's that
dissonance again so I want you to think about somebody like dr. Judson Brewer he
is like a neuroscientist right he's a smart dude so that's where that
dissonance comes in like he's a smart guy
how could he you know be a fan of somebody who was cheating or so
obviously doping you see what I mean like it's really fascinating and I I've
talked about some of this stuff a little bit on my Instagram stories lately and I
have another video or two that I'm gonna make around the subject of cognitive
dissonance like one of them involves repressed memories and false memories I
might do what about this like religious cults type thing that was absolutely
mind-blowing with this one psychologists predicted exactly what was going
happen but again this video is not an attack on Logan Paul's fans
whenever I learn about these things I try to look at myself and say oh wow
like why why am I so irrational why do I do the things I do or think the way I
think when I'm presented with evidence right and after just finishing an entire
book about cognitive dissonance it helps me like step back and look at
different situations for example like right now I don't know if you could tell
but I'm down 12 pounds I've been trying to eat better
going to the gym staying on that New Year's Eve resolution my goal at the end
of the year is to have lost 50 pounds by the end of 2020 right and you know it
hasn't happened as often as it used to when I would diet but like every now and
then I just have like a cheat day right I've probably had like one or two like
but like oh my god I'm gonna puke and I sit there and I'm like why would I do
that why would I do something so irrational I
know that I'm trying to lose weight I know that I want to lose weight so why
would I do something so irrational you see what I mean so it's not so much
about judging others but when we notice it in others it's important too in my
opinion to turn that that script back on ourselves and say what irrational things
do I do what have I done that's completely irrational right why did I
stay in that relationship even though it it was clear that it was toxic all these
other things why did I stay at that job that treated me like garbage for 10
years all these different things like so it's really easy to look at others but I
try to take that and then look at myself and what's going on in my own life so
hopefully that gives you some stuff to think about alright but anyways that's
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