Send us a text Making Smart Decisions in Dangerous Places What does wisdom really mean when lives are on the line? In Wisdom Under Fire, conflict journalist and survival expert Robert Young Pelton explores decision-making in environments where mistakes are punished immediately. Drawing on more than four decades in war zones, failed states, and high-risk situations, Pelton argues that wisdom isn’t mystical, emotional, or age-dependent. Wisdom is the quality of your decisions—and their outcomes...
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Send us a text Making Smart Decisions in Dangerous Places What does wisdom really mean when lives are on the line? In Wisdom Under Fire, conflict journalist and survival expert Robert Young Pelton explores decision-making in environments where mistakes are punished immediately. Drawing on more than four decades in war zones, failed states, and high-risk situations, Pelton argues that wisdom isn’t mystical, emotional, or age-dependent. Wisdom is the quality of your decisions—and their outcomes...
Send us a text Pelton traces propaganda’s modern roots to Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, who turned psychoanalysis into a tool for mass persuasion. His early rise in advertising—and decision to leave it behind—fueled his quest to understand real conflict, not the manufactured kind. “My job was to sell people something they didn’t need — and that’s when I realized how deep this runs.” From Psychoanalysis to Public Relations to War Freud’s ideas on the unconscious became Bernays’ blue...
The World's Most Dangerous Places Podcast
Send us a text Making Smart Decisions in Dangerous Places What does wisdom really mean when lives are on the line? In Wisdom Under Fire, conflict journalist and survival expert Robert Young Pelton explores decision-making in environments where mistakes are punished immediately. Drawing on more than four decades in war zones, failed states, and high-risk situations, Pelton argues that wisdom isn’t mystical, emotional, or age-dependent. Wisdom is the quality of your decisions—and their outcomes...
