in this video we're gonna be talking about James Charles road rage and how a
nuclear crisis was averted what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired
soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and one of my
philosophies is what good is watching YouTube if we're not taking lessons and
applying them to our own lives to improve them so if you're into that
stuff make sure you subscribe and bring that notification about so I just
finished an awesome book awesome awesome awesome book by shane parish called
mental models and the book is kind of about just better ways of looking at the
world making better decisions and if kind of like this this idea of not all
of us trying to become geniuses or be perfect but the idea of avoiding as many
mistakes as possible and there was an interesting concept brought up in this
book and thinking about all the reasons James Charles drama and situations going
on I was like huh maybe I can teach people about this concept as well by
applying it to the James Charles situation so let's start off with this
okay let's imagine you don't really have to
imagine this is something that happens to all of us all the time especially if
you live in Southern California because traffic out there is nuts and the topic
that we're starting off with is road rage alright
so imagine you're driving right or this is something that just recently happened
to you you're driving you're in a rush you're in a hurry or you're just stuck
in traffic you irritated you're annoyed and somebody cuts you off slams on the
brakes and you almost hit them right what's that emotion that we get we can't
so angry we get furious alright and a lot of it is because we believe that
that person was out to do something to harm us alright and this is where
Hamlin's razor comes in and it's such an important concept especially if you're
somebody who find yourself getting angry all the time
so what the heck is hanlin's razor hand leads razor is this it is an aphorism
expressed in various ways including never a tribute to malice that
which is adequately explained by stupidity so this was named after Robert
J Hamlin and it is a philosophical razor which suggests a way of eliminating
unlikely explanations for human behavior so let's apply this to the road rage
situation the way our brain works and it's part of our ego right we believe
that that person was just ill intention and they have some kind of strange
personal vendetta against us but think about that Mike when we're not when
we're not focused on our emotions when we're not letting our emotions override
our logic like sit back and think about it like what is the likelihood that that
person even knows you exist right but our brain creates this story about how
this person has so much malice towards us that they were going to speed up cut
in front of us slam on their brakes with the precise timing that it takes to piss
us off but also avert a car accident like think about the effort and the
mathematical genius that would have to go into the act that other persons
thought process in order to cut us off and make all these things happen right
so the Hamlin's razor is just saying is it is probably a more logical
explanation which can also help calm down our emotions to just imagine that
person was just being dumb and not paying attention to this situation same
thing goes for like this is something that I deal with all the time and I have
to apply it on a regular basis I've never please like your turn signal on
and people aren't letting you over right and you get so mad like the brain
creates this story that's that person sees your blinker and they're like you
know what screw that guy or screw that lady I am not letting them in but I have
to remind myself like chances are they just don't see my turn signal maybe
they're being dumb and maybe they're like looking at their phone or maybe
they're spaced out or whatever it is something that helps me remind this and
have a little bit more I don't know empathy is remembering like like there
are instances where I'm like oh crap that person had their turn signal on
right so Hamlin's razor in this kind of thought process host me cut some other
people some slack and it helps palm down now here's another story where
Hamlet's razor actually save the world all right
so back in 1962 during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis where America and
the Soviet Union they weren't getting along too well well they were both
occupying international waters all right that subs over there so basically the
United States was like yo we're gonna send out some blank missiles to kind of
like you know do a little a little deal to maybe get some Russian subs to
surface but they're blank we're not firing on you guys we just want to know
where the heck you guys are so they sent this message over to Russia and they
said listen this is what we're doing now the problem is the problem with this was
that Russia didn't tell their boys in the waters over in Cuba that this was
happening okay so think about that for a second so when these blank charges went
off the Russian Jews in that sub started to freak out and this is a Russian sub
on with nuclear weapons so they believed that the United States was firing on
them and they were like oh my god we need to fire back and we need to send
these nukes and all right but thank God for this dude this dude is Vasili
arkhipov all right so motive for them to fire their nuclear missiles they needed
three people to say okay yeah let's do this well two of them one or two but
Vasili arkhipov he was like nah man so basically he used Hamlin's razor in this
situation he's like hey like these charges went off way over here the
United States probably has the technology to hit us if they wanted to
maybe this was an accident maybe there is a better explanation for what
happened all right so he convinced the other people on the
ship to not fire these nuclear weapons okay and this is actually something that
wasn't learned about or or released to the public until about 40 years later
but think about it because because Vasili arkhipov
attributed stupidity rather than malice to the United States or even his own
government by saying maybe they just didn't give us some information it
averted a nuclear crisis so what the hell does this have to do with James
Charles one of the stories just will not die down that I keep
seeing popped up on my recommended feed is the drama between James Charles and
Tati Westbrook alright so those of you who don't know what's going on talk to
Westbrook she has a like vitamin line for like
hair and nails and things like that is called halo Beauty well Jim Charles and
talk to our friends or were friends whatever I don't know what's going on
between us but anyways James Charles was at Coachella okay James Charles is James
Charles so he needed some security he didn't buy his own security whatever it
is so sugar bear hair which also makes vitamins which is a competitor of Tati Westbrook
they gave James Charles some security when James Charles got back from
Coachella he did a sponsored ad for them as a thank-you on his Instagram talk to
Westbrook rather than talking to James about how hurt she was she would did an
Instagram story cry talking about how betrayed she was how hurt she was by
this act and just it has been crazy it has been crazy like just seeing all this
stuff like people are taking sighs people are siding with Toxie Westbrook
like Shane Dawson has got involved I think Geoffrey star got involved you
know James Charles released an apology people were still mad about him at him
about that all sorts of craziness all right so where the hell does hanlin's
razor come in okay so in Tati Westbrook's mind and Tati's mind James Charles like the
logic behind this is James Charles would have had to run into sugar bear hair
right they offer this at Coachella this security and they made a deal like okay
you're helping me with security I'll help you with this and James Charles would
have had to sit there and said you know what in the middle of Coachella in the
middle of Coachella he would say you know what Tati Westbrook one of my friends
taki has this hairline this is competition this is something that I
should not do okay or Oh James Charles would have said all these things in his
mind remember Tati and he would have had to say you know what screw Tati
Westbrook screw her even though she helped me and she's like a mother to me
and she's been like a mentor to me and YouTube Beauty influencer thing you know
what screw her alright so that is what talk to us works brain is telling her
now is that logical or or is it possible is it possible that a more logical
explanation was James is young and dumb James was at Coachella James didn't
think about getting security James needed security he ran into sugar
bear hair and they talked about a sponsorship deal in exchange for the
security and James during Coachella because sugar bear hair was right in
front of his face and Tati Westbrook wasn't is it possible is it possible
that in the middle of one of the biggest music festivals of the year Tachi
Westbrook was not in the forefront of James Charles mind and he made a very
dumb and ignorant decision by accident which one makes more sense James Charles
maliciously trying to screw his friend over and I've set her or him being an
absent-minded dumb kid all right might think about that for a second this is
why Hamlin's razor is so so so important and like this night when I learned about
this and there's some other stuff that I want to introduce to all of you as well
like I heard about this I'm like oh my god like and again my videos are to help
all of you like think about how often this stuff happens to you like this is
one of the reasons why I started out this video with the road rage incident
think about how many times our ego tells us that that person was maliciously
trying to hurt us how many times is our brain tell us that right how healthy is
that have you ever snapped at somebody have you ever just snapped on somebody
maybe uh a friend a family member a co-worker right maybe even your child
you snap at them and then when they explain the situation you're like oh oh
my bad right because the narrative that your brain made up was completely insane
right so we need to start taking Hamlin's razor and applying it to our
everyday life like don't assume Malus when it could be easily explained
with stupidity with ignorance with asset mindedness with forgetfulness whatever
it is right especially like if you have a Chang no scratch that especially like
think about having a pet like I have one beautiful cat my beautiful girlfriend
has another cat named Wyatt then they do some weird stuff right Maya
sometimes she eats too fast and then she throws up like I could either sit down
and be like she knows she knows that I hate when she throws up and she did this
on purpose she threw up on this specific spot just to spite me no she's just a
freaking cat you know what I mean so please please please like take a step
back the best thing you can do is get a pause button which meditation can help
you with pause and say okay was this person intentionally trying to harm me
or could it be some type of mistake right and if we can do that for even
just a moment maybe we can have a conversation with that person rather
than snapping on them or rather than going on Instagram and freaking out like
we can have a conversation with them and maybe figure out a different explanation
than what our brain told us all right but anyways again go check out that book
mental models it's available on audible by the way this isn't sponsored but I
love reading and I've been on a reading kick lately so check out this book shame
Paris also has like a whole blog I like his blog and book and everything like
that down below alright many ways that's all I got for
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