Asking For A Friend with TalkDoc

#049: Fallacies (Part 6): How to Vet Your Influencers

Influencers and endorsers with famous faces and voices are now a multi-billion-dollar industry for the advertising industry. The exploding popularity of social media channels is accelerating this trend.  As a result, we are bombarded nearly by the minute with messages propped up by celebrity, media, and online personalities.  Often these messages leverage the Fallacy of False Authority. So, what steps can we take to more intelligently respond to these messages - especially the ones where the expertise of the individual speaking up in support of a product, service or idea doesn’t at all match?  

In this episode of “Asking For A Friend,” TalkDoc with Meredith and Teighlor, explore the Fallacy of False Authority and it’s cousin Blind Loyalty. You’ll hear examples to better spot this fallacy in your own life.  Then our AFAF team will share practical steps you can take to put what you’ve learned into action to help avoid falling into these fallacy traps.

As you become familiar with how to spot different types of fallacies, including false Authority, you’ll be better equipped to keep an open mind so that you can focus on evidence and ideas vs. the false associations presented by “post hoc” fallacies.

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#048: Fallacies (Part 5): It’s Complicated! How to Avoid Oversimplification

Simplification can be a handy way for us to make sense of something that may seem complex.  But when oversimplification takes over, we may end up missing the truth about what’s really going on. In our everyday relationships it helps to be equipped with detection tools to help us avoid accepting explanations of outcomes that simply aren’t true. 

In this episode of “Asking For A Friend," TalkDoc along with Meredith and Teighlor, discuss types of oversimplification that we encounter in our everyday lives, like confusing correlation with causation.  Then they lay out practical tools for detecting oversimplification and how to move past it to uncover what’s really going on.  

As you become familiar with how to spot different types of fallacies you’ll be better equipped to keep an open mind so that you can focus on evidence and ideas vs the false associations presented by oversimplification fallacies.

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#047: Fallacies (Part 4): Are You Stitious or Superstitious?

Have you ever heard someone blame a superstition on an outcome that is completely unrelated?  Like, “I saw a black cat cross my path and that is why I failed my test.”  If you have, then you know what a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy sounds like (Latin for “If therefore because of this”).  

Superstitious “Post hoc” fallacies are another way we attempt to explain events to ourselves. In an earlier episode of “Asking For A Friend” on Mindsets (Episode 4) we talked about how we explain things in our lives to ourselves. In this episode, you’ll learn about more superstitions - like lucky pennies and knocking on wood. 

TalkDoc leads a conversation with Meredith and Teighlor to uncover the dangers in these fallacies and the benefits of understanding the true reasons for an outcome.  You’ll also learn about how superstition “post hoc” fallacies can fuel the flame of shame as well as benefits of isolating the causes for why an outcome actually happened.

As you become familiar with how to spot different types of fallacies you’ll be better equipped to keep an open mind so that you can focus on evidence and ideas vs the false associations presented by “post hoc” fallacies.

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#046: Fallacies (Part 3): How to Spot Scare Tactics

Fallacies come in all shapes and sizes, but what they all have in common is fundamentally unsound. Consequently, fallacies do not hold up under scrutiny.

In part 3 of our series, we explore fallacies based on scare tactics and emotional appeal. You’ll become better acquainted with this type of fallacy, the forms it takes and the power it has to convince you to change your mind.  Listen to TalkDoc, Meredith and Teighlor discuss how to better manage and respond to an encounter with someone who lobs this type of fallacy into your court. 

As you become familiar with how to spot different types of fallacies, you’ll be better equipped to keep an open mind so that you can focus on evidence and ideas versus the origin or people delivering the message.

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#045: Fallacies (Part 2): How to Keep an Open Mind

In part 2 of our series on fallacies, TalkDoc along with her AFAF colleagues Teighlor and Meredith,  introduce additional types of fallacies. As they unpack these fallacies, you’ll learn about the role being rooted in your own values plays when fallacies come your way and the impact of credibility on the believability of an argument. 

As you become familiar with how to spot different types of fallacies you’ll be better equipped to keep an open mind so that you can focus on evidence and ideas vs the origin or people delivering the message.

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#044: Fallacies (Part 1): How to Stop Jumping to Conclusions

In this episode, TalkDoc introduces our new series on fallacies. This week we are looking at the fallacy of hasty generalizations. The team breaks down what this is and why it is important. As you listen with us, consider areas you may jump to conclusions or areas you hear people around you doing this. This fallacy can range from bad parenting advice to stereotypes on categories of people. Remember to consider terms you use, watch out for stereotypes, and as always, research, research, research!

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#043: New Year‘s Resolutions (Part 4): Spending Time Wisely

As an end of the year bonus, we’ll be releasing 4 short episodes on New Years resolutions over the next 4 days! Join us as we learn about what communication resolutions we can make to improve our relationships.

In this episode the AFAF team wraps up our New Year’s resolutions with how to reduce screen time and how to get off the office chair more often. Did you know the average use of screen time is only increasing year by year? Re-listen to our Episode 15 (“What the Phub”) for more detailed information about phone usage and relationships.  Explore with us how you’ll increase your in person presence, off the screen, in 2022. Perhaps increased daily movement can be added to your routine. How will you look up and look out this year? Apply small changes in your day to day and commit to those changes as you reflect on what relationships and communication skills you want growth in this new year.

Don’t forget our giveaway contest! Send us your holiday survival kit story for a chance to win an AFAF podcast mug! Email us at hello@afafpodcast.com or tag us on Instagram @afaf.podcast.

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#042: New Year‘s Resolutions (Part 3): Intentional Relationships

As an end of the year bonus, we’ll be releasing 4 short episodes on New Years resolutions over the next 4 days! Join us as we learn about what communication resolutions we can make to improve our relationships.

In this episode we’re getting intentional with Part 3 of New Year’s resolutions.  Saving money or spending more wisely is a widely known resolution. So how does it connect to AFAF? First we each pull a quote or poem that sparks this resolution. When we talk about saving or spending more wisely it connects to communication in that we can be selective about how we spend time our time and who we spend it with. This podcast is about communication and relationships. So how will you challenge intentionality in your time and relationships this new year?

Don’t forget our giveaway contest! Send us your holiday survival kit story for a chance to win an AFAF podcast mug! Email us at hello@afafpodcast.com or tag us on Instagram @afaf.podcast.

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#041: New Year‘s Resolutions (Part 2): Improving Communication Fitness

As an end of the year bonus we’ll be releasing 4 short episodes on New Years resolutions over the next 4 days! Join us as we learn about resolutions and what communication resolutions we can make to improve our relationships.

Fitness is one of most people’s top goals for the new year. But what is communication fitness? What resolutions can we add to our daily life to make us more fit and successful in our experience with others? It’s important to keep realistic goals—maybe we won’t do it perfectly every time, but there can be improvement. And of course it’s going to come back to practice and planning. What can also be helpful is to test your resolution to see if you’re improving.

Don’t forget our giveaway contest! Send us your holiday survival kit story for a chance to win an AFAF podcast mug! Email us hello@afafpodcast.com or tag us on Instagram @afaf.podcast.

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#040: New Year‘s Resolutions (Part 1): Losing Weight

As an end of the year bonus, we’ll be releasing 4 short episodes on New Years resolutions over the next 4 days! Join us as we learn about what communication resolutions we can make to improve our relationships.

Research shows that a lot of people make resolutions— mostly related to weight-loss and health. But what about our relationship and communication goals?

Have you learned some things from this podcast but maybe have yet to put them into practice? Let’s take the time now to be intentional and actually do the work. What bad habits can we lose to be our healthiest self in the new year? Join us as we do this with you!

Don’t forget our giveaway contest! Send us your holiday survival kit story for a chance to win an AFAF podcast mug! Email us at hello@afafpodcast.com or tag us on Instagram @afaf.podcast.

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