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...
Psychographics to Active Measures: The Hidden War for Your Mind
The World's Most Dangerous Places Podcast
59 minutes
2 months ago
Psychographics to Active Measures: The Hidden War for Your Mind
Send us a text From Propaganda to Psychographics Pelton traces the arc from Sigmund Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays—who pioneered “engineering consent”—to Cambridge Analytica, where psychological profiling became the core of modern political warfare. They break down the difference between demographics (who we are) and psychographics (how we think and feel), revealing how platforms like Facebook opened the floodgates to emotional targeting and mass persuasion. “When Bernays said civilizati...
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...
