2026-10-19
1 小时 53 分钟People regularly look for personal generalizations, personality generalizations about leaders.
Perhaps the commonest generalization is that leaders have to be charismatic.
Nonsense.
Some leaders are charismatic.
Stalin...
Augusto Pinochet, the dictator of Chile, totally uncharismatic.
There are about 37 ways to be an effective leader of which charisma is one.
And any question that you or anybody else would ask about how can we generalize about leaders,
personnel, there are some generalizations about leaders,
but not personality generalizations because there are different ways to be an effective leader.
Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.
I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
My guest today is Dr. Jared Diamond.
Dr. Jared Diamond is a professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles.
He's done research in biology, anthropology,
and frankly, in so many areas that there really isn't an appropriate title for him.
He's also a renowned author of books such as Guns, Germs, and Steel, for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
He has also been awarded the National Medal of Science and a MacArthur Genius Award.
Today, we discuss topics related to Jared's most recent book, which is about leaders and leadership.
It is entitled Prophets, Prophets...