Today's we are talking with Ruben Chavez creator of Think Grow Prosper and the Think Grow Podcast (highly recommend listening to his podcast!)
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Show Notes (easier to navigate on the YouTube video)
- 01:04 on social media
- 02:16 what is Ruben's podcast about
- 05:28 what started Ruben's journey into philosophy?
- 09:49 the philosophy of politics
- 11:59 landscape of humans thoughts and ethics
- 12:28 how to live in the world
- 13:51 there are no new problems
- 15:07 Jordan Peterson
- 15:24 clean up your room
- 16:51 Jordan Peterson as a psychometrician
- 18:03 personality vs political beliefs
- 18:46 the big 5 personality traits
- 19:37 Jonathan Haidt
- 20:52 there's wisdom in different political views
- 22:33 on goals and desires
- 23:52 on being a philosophical generalist
- 24:37 big history & sapiens
- 25:23 Jonathan Haidt - the righteous mind
- 26:30 desires and the 2 two schools of thought
- 27:05 Tao Te Ching (Dàodé jīng)
- 28:08 Jim Rohn quote: “Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.” —Jim Rohn
- 28:24 flexibility in our goals to adapt
- 30:04 how to deal with contradictions, two opposing views that both make sense. The answer there is in "balancing" both
- 30:40 quote by Khe Hy @khemaridh "The paradox of goals: If you achieve them, you get bored. If you don't, you're unsatisfied. Ergo, you bounce between being bored and unsatisfied."
- 32:22 chaos and order
- 33:44 flow modern version of Wu wei "non-action"
- 35:36 on truth
- 35:47 Jordan Peterson vs Sam Harris conversation
- 37:06 pragmatic view: what's true is what is useful
- 37:11 Yuval Noah Harari: intersubjective reality
- 39:04 religion as an intersubjective reality
- 41:29 lobsters
- 42:00 the laws of nature, vs human laws
- 43:34 truth in fiction books
- 45:01 different fields of study describing a mountain
- 45:34 various sources of truth, different fields, different perspectives
- 48:34 why do we call fiction fake?
- 49:39 good stories are like statistics
- 51:13 Harry Potter is relatable because we see ourselves in him
- 52:56 parenting and teaching kids about scary emotions
- 58:53 what does it mean to become an adult
- 01:02:01 life stages and feeling like an adult
- 01:04:48 parenthood is like programing
- 01:05:44 does parenthood changes life philosophy?
- 01:06:43 On having an obsessive personality
- 01:08:19 how to deal with contradictions?
- 01:09:16 the ability to change beliefs
- 01:09:52 Quote: “This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.” ― Orson Scott Card
- 01:11:03 A Theory of Everything Book by Ken Wilber
- 01:13:45 things are in constant change
- 01:14:58 on Ruben's book
- 01:18:28 we trick ourselves to rationalize our beliefs
- 01:22:41 the overlap across philosophies
- 01:25:12 where to find more of Ruben's work
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