489: Russ Roberts | How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life

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🗓️ 22 February 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Russ Roberts (@EconTalker) talks about how economics can help us understand the world around us and lead better lives. He's the author of How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness and host of the EconTalk podcast. The Cheat Sheet: Adam Smith's deepest insight into human nature -- what really makes us tick -- is being loved and lovely. Learn about the impartial spectator -- Smith's basis for our conscience What are the dangers of self-deception at work and at home? The father of capitalism thought that seeking wealth for its own sake is a fool's game and corrupts us. Even in 1759, Adam Smith understood the seductive power of gadgets, celebrities, and powerful politicians. And so much more... Show notes at http://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/russ-roberts-how-adam-smith-can-change-your-life-episode-489/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

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0:00.0	This is the art of charm.
0:04.7	Learn everything you need to know to crush it in business, love, and life.
0:11.0	Today we're talking with Russ Roberts.
0:12.6	He's an economist and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:17.1	So he's a pretty sharp cat and we're going to be talking about another sharp cat named
0:21.0	Adam Smith.
0:22.0	But we're not talking about the wealth of nations.
0:23.6	We're talking about his other book that came before that.
0:27.2	That was all about human behavior virtue and the way that people are sort of a philosophical
0:33.0	treatise on how we should treat each other.
0:35.3	And it's really interesting.
0:36.3	I had no idea this even existed.
0:38.7	We're going to talk about his deepest insight.
0:40.3	Adam Smith's deepest insight into human nature, what really makes us tick.
0:44.4	The concepts of being loved and lovely, which are words that no one uses anymore, or at
0:48.7	least lovely anyway.
0:50.4	Something called the impartial spectator, Smith's basis for our conscience and the dangers
0:55.1	of self-deception both at work and at home.
0:58.2	So enjoy this one with Russ Roberts and through him, Adam Smith.
1:02.4	And with that welcome to the Art of Charm, I'm Jordan Harbinger.
1:06.0	The Art of Charm brings together the best thought leaders, Ted or alive at this point, teachers
1:10.2	and exceptional individuals to teach you how to be a top performer in life, love, and
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