You Can't Spot a Jerk by Their Means or Their Ends. Here's What Actually Gives Them Away.

You can't spot a jerk by their tactics -- we all cut corners sometimes. You can't spot them by their stated goals either -- everyone claims good intentions. In this episode, Jeremy Sherman debates himself to find the real tell: an endless, insatiable need to talk about themselves, using Trump's "Make America Great Again" as the textbook example of a goal so vague it's really just a vehicle for the flex. Negotiate with yourself and win is a podcast in which I debate, discuss, and argue with myself about topics in cradle-to-grave research, from the origin of life to our grave situation: Topics include: 1. Teleodynamics: The chemical origins and nature of life's struggle for existence. 2. Ambigamy: The natural history of life's dilemmas. 3. Evolving drunk on language: Adapting to reality under the influence of language. 4. Psychoproctology: the nature and management of absolutism. 5. Optimal Illusion: How to make gloataholic infallibility play safe. 6. The Fallibilist Social Contract: Social design for absolutism prevention. Articles: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ambigamy Podcasts: https://nwyaw.libsyn.com Jeremy Sherman