How to Keep Power from Going to Your Head

The famous British historian Lord Acton once said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And science tends to agree, but how we can prevent power from going to our heads? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc... http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbi... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/... https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/... https://hbr.org/2016/10/dont-let-powe... https://academic.oup.com/brain/articl... http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1... https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/1744911... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1... https://www.businessinsider.com/study... https://www.thecut.com/2015/01/powerf... https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/arti... http://www.obhilab.com/power https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/1... https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.... https://theconversation.com/the-neuro... https://www.psypost.org/2018/05/testo... http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-17... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1... https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/vo... https://www.1843magazine.com/features... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1... https://hbr.org/2018/02/power-can-cor... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2... Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...