Ep 4 - Who Do You Trust

Living in the digital age where everyone can communicate and social media sensationalism creates panic, how do you calibrate information to have a well-informed decision, what is your best practice for filtering of how this applies to you and who do you trust.

Today’s episode is predicated to misinformation, competing with the flood of news from people who have a very distinct agenda, and the struggle to find certainty in this current situation.

Your buddies from Meanwhile on Main Street Podcast lay out the groundwork for a solution to what does a post-COVID19 business world, family, and community look like. Joined by former Marines, Soldiers, Sales Professionals, Entrepreneurs, and Attorneys, this podcast shares a MEANINGFUL conversation on how to move forward.

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Favorite Quote:

“Anyone can say anything they want online, through social media or whatever, and say it with enough authority and convincingly enough that people are going to believe it. And so the struggle then becomes, well, where do you get your news from and what information can you rely on?”

-Justin Lee

In this episode:

1:48 - Quoting from the lead expert that affects your view of who you can trust

3:27 - Why social media intensify the struggle on what information you can rely on

6:55 - Applying white noise due to political motives and the mainstream media agenda

11:59 - The reason why it’s hard to discern who to trust

14:20 - Practicing acid test technique to calibrate the reality you are dealing with

16:43- Justifying the argument of confirmation bias for an agenda

23:23 - Why decision making has to be more decentralized

27:32 - The value of involving yourself with the local politics or civil government

33:48- Josh’s last thought to misinformation or validating sources of information to come up with a well-formulated plan

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