In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Scott Barry Kaufman about human well-being. They discuss intelligence and creativity, wisdom and transcendence, the history of humanistic psychology, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the connection between well-being and ethics, self-esteem, psychedelics and meditation, peak and plateau experiences, mortality salience, the pre-trans fallacy, fear of uncertainty, work and meaning, intrinsic vs. extrinsic rewards, pathological altruism, intimacy vs. belonging, two aspects of self-transcendence, and other topics.
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#366 — Urban Warfare 2.0
#365 — Reality Check
#364 — Facts & Values
#363 — Knowledge Work
#362 — Six Months of War
#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism
#360 — We Really Don’t Have Free Will?
#359 — Getting Used to It
#358 — The War in Ukraine
#357 — America & World Order
#356 — Islam & Freedom
#355 — A Falling World
#354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy?
#353 — Race & Reason
#352 — Hubris & Chaos
#351 — 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza
#350 — Sharing Reality
#349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good
#348 — The Politics of Antisemitism
#347 — Finding Sanity in 2024
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