Dacher Keltner | The Power Paradox — How We Gain & Lose Influence

Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, founding director of the Greater Good Science Center, host of the award-winning Science of Happiness podcast, and author of several books including "The Power Paradox" — a groundbreaking exploration of how we gain and lose influence in our lives, relationships, and communities.In this conversation, we explore what power actually is and how it differs from status, money, and social class, how we gain power through social and cultural capital, and what the power paradox reveals about why those who achieve power so often abuse it.We get into how to mitigate abuses of power, how powerlessness affects people psychologically and physically, the Machiavellian approach to power and why it ultimately fails, and how to more skillfully navigate the power paradox in your own life.We also discuss political correctness and cancel culture, white privilege, race, class, and other forms of inequality, indigenous cultures and well-being, and how modern living is making us sick — a wide-ranging and honest conversation about one of the most complex forces shaping human life.🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES 🔗Greater Good Science Center The Power Paradox — in-depth book summary Is life a game of power? Polarity Management — Barry Johnson How Daryl Davis got 200 KKK members to give up their hoods🕰️ TIMESTAMPS 🕰️0:00 - Introduction 1:40 - How Dacher came to study power and what the power paradox is 4:12 - Our culture's dominant understanding of power and what power actually is 5:52 - How power is different from status, money, and social class 9:02 - Gaining power through social and cultural capital 11:18 - How to mitigate abuses of power 13:24 - Political correctness and cancel culture 15:15 - How powerlessness affects people 19:55 - Trump and the Machiavellian approach to power 24:57 - How to more skillfully play with the power paradox 28:50 - The thinkers and leaders that impacted Dacher's worldview 32:10 - Artem and Dacher discuss white privilege, race, class, and other forms of inequality 42:41 - Indigenous cultures, nature, well-being, and how modern living is making us sick 49:31 - The good, the bad, and the paradoxical 53:25 - Where to connect with Dacher*Subscribe to my YouTube channel to watch the video versions of the Elevating Consciousness Podcast *Subscribe to the Insighter Substack to get in-depth articles on the theory and practice of human transformation through a post-conventional