769 - Peter Boghossian (Part 1): Was Peter Right to Quit?

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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September 8th, 2021. Peter Boghossian, an American philosopher, pedagogist, and author, thrown down his resignation letter as an educator for 10 years to the Portland State University. Here's the open letter that Peter penned after his resignation. https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/my-university-sacrificed-ideas-for Now, as a friend of the pod, I naturally invited him back on again, and talk about why, does he feel the needs to quit, and did he ever have the impossible conversation with the university. Listen to this Part 1 out of 2, and Part 2 will come out the same day too! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.2	So Peter Bregozion was on the podcast a couple months ago talking about how to have impossible
0:21.3	conversations.
0:22.3	But right now I wanted to talk to Peter about something specifically happening in his
0:25.7	life. He basically quit Portland State University for a very interesting reason and he couldn't
0:32.5	even have an impossible conversation about it.
0:35.3	So this is part one and part two.
0:37.8	Part one would kind of describe the general background of what was happening at his university
0:43.2	that made him quit and what did he try to do and did he try to do his own techniques.
0:46.7	And part two, which is also available today, I have specifically what happened to him
0:51.5	on campus and how he dealt with it.
1:04.2	So Peter, even though we're going to be talking about a bunch of different things and I'll
1:07.5	talk a little bit more about this and why it's important right now and what's happened
1:11.2	to you.
1:12.2	Maybe you can give just a slight background for the listeners.
1:15.0	What happened to you specifically at the university you were teaching at?
1:17.9	I was teaching at Portland State University and I resigned my position.
1:23.3	I found it insufferable.
1:25.3	I was trying to think of a politic word.
1:27.4	I couldn't think of one where the longer I stayed the more I had to compromise my integrity
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