509: Sam Harris | Making Sense of the Present Tense
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) is a neuroscientist, philosopher, and author of five New York Times bestsellers. He is the host of the Making Sense podcast and his latest book is Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity.
What We Discuss with Sam Harris:- How can someone in the public eye speak freely without worrying about being canceled?
- How to keep an open mind when debating someone with whom you disagree vehemently.
- What it really takes to get people to behave ethically.
- How to resist the distorting effect of social media's "funhouse mirror" on reality.
- Why, if you choose to participate in social media, you should make sure to follow at least some (preferably many) people who don't share your views.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.2 | You should be following people on social media who you disagree with. |
| 0:08.0 | Or at least people who are adjacent enough to people who you really disagree with |
| 0:12.8 | where you're seeing things you disagree with. |
| 0:15.7 | If you're only seeing things you agree with, right? |
| 0:18.3 | Where it's just everything's got the top spin that you like. |
| 0:20.9 | You're disposed just to forward it on even before reading the article, right? |
| 0:24.9 | You just like the headline enough. |
| 0:26.8 | And you like the source enough that this is good enough. |
| 0:29.2 | And you just kind of give it your boost. |
| 0:32.0 | You're absolutely part of the problem. |
| 0:38.4 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:40.4 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's |
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| 1:05.2 | thinker. |
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