203 - Transcend - Scott Barry Kaufman

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🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In this episode we sit down with Scott Barry Kaufman, one of the most-influential and prolific psychologists working today, to discuss his new book, Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization. Business Insider magazine named Kaufman one of the “50 groundbreaking scientists who are changing the way we see the world,” and you would agree after hanging out with him. In my experience, you feel seen, heard, respected, challenged, and above all, when you leave a conversation with Scott, you do so feeling either like you must work on your purpose in life from that point on, or you must work to find it. In the show, we discuss our shared desire to bring humanistic psychology back to the forefront and walk through Kaufman’s re-imagining of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and trace Kaufman’s journey through Maslow’s unpublished journals about his unfinished theory of transcendence which Kaufman hopes to complete by picking up where Maslow left off just before his untimely death.Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:23.9	That's patreon.com-slash-you-are-not-so-smart.
0:30.0	Welcome to The You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:57.0	Episode 203.
1:15.4	I want to start out with Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
1:21.2	Here's something that people probably wouldn't know unless they picked up your book and read
1:24.9	it.
1:25.9	You never really actually was built into a pyramid that came later, am I right?
1:31.0	Well, yeah, Maslow never drew it as a pyramid.
1:34.2	That was other people that tried to represent, particularly management consultants, that
1:38.8	tried to represent his theory, so that is right.
1:50.0	That is Scott Barry Kaufman, who is one of the most influential and prolific psychologists
1:55.9	working today.
1:56.9	In fact, on the day I interviewed him for this podcast, he had interviewed Daniel Kahneman
2:03.8	for his podcast, who we both agreed is the most influential psychologist alive.
2:10.8	Yeah, for sure.
2:11.8	I basically introduced him, I was like, today it's great to talk with the greatest living,
2:17.4	the most influential living psychologist in one of the greatest psychologists of all
2:20.4	time.
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