For the past 20 years Dacher Keltner has studied human emotion, power, and the structure of human social life. Building upon hundreds of scientific findings, his work as a scientific consultant on Pixar's film "Inside Out", and work to improve the criminal justice system, this talk will detail five basic principles about human power that he captures in his new book, "The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence." These ideas will answer timeless questions such as how we get power and why it so often unleashes sociopathic tendencies, and how power is dramatically changing in this 21st century (thanks in part to entities like Google). He will point to a future of more positive power, and ways to remedy the ills of power, such as inequality.

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1. “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling
   ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is
   at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the
   means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same
   time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally
   speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are
   subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal
   expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material
   relationships grasped as ideas.”
   
   
   ―
   Karl Marx
2. During the Q&A, the questioner assumed the person of power was more likely to speed because the deterrent of paying the fine was insignificant. It is true that the fine is insignificant. Not only must the fine be perceived by the power person, but the chances of being being stopped while speeding must also be perceive as very high
3. Another good book on this topic is Sir Michael Marmot's 'Status Syndrome'.
4. Figuring people out... that's a real challenge, I can't even put together who I was last 10 years ago