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
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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
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