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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 197 minutes

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John Vervaeke is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at University of Toronto. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.com and use code LEX to get $35 off – InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off – Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings – Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil – Onnit: https://lexfridman.com/onnit to get up to 10% off EPISODE LINKS: John’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/johnvervaeke John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john John’s Facebook: https://facebook.com/VervaekeJohn John’s Website: https://johnvervaeke.com Books mentioned: Flow: https://amzn.to/3cQDby9 On Bullshit: https://amzn.to/3PZDvYW The Denial of Death: https://amzn.to/3KsIctp PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts:

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The following is a conversation with John Verveki, a psychologist and cognitive scientist

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at University of Toronto.

0:06.6

I highly recommend his lecture series called Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, which

0:12.3

covers the history and future of humanity's search for meaning.

0:18.4

And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor.

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0:35.6

Choose wise and my friends.

0:37.4

And now onto the full ad reads.

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As always, no ads in the middle.

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I try to make this interesting, but if you skip them, please do check out our sponsors.

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I enjoy their stuff.

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Maybe you will too.

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So I feel pretty, you know, I'm pretty short on adjectives when I describe stuff.

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Adjectives are tricky.

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In fact, I try to avoid adjectives because I think that's a slippery slope that you

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