#90 — Living With Violence

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 6 August 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with Gavin de Becker about the primacy of human intuition in the prediction and prevention of violence.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
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0:46.6	Today I'm speaking with Gavin DeBecker. Gavin is widely regarded as our nation's leading
0:53.0	expert on the prediction and management of violence. He's the best-selling author of The Gift of
0:59.2	Fear and several other books on violence prevention. His work has earned him three presidential appointments,
1:06.4	and he's been on the President's Advisory Board at the U.S. Department of Justice.
1:11.6	He's also worked with the Governor of California. He's worked with universities, corporations,
1:17.6	celebrities, two numerous to name. His first book, The Gift of Fear, was a number one New York
1:23.3	Times bestseller, and he's now published in 19 languages. And Oprah Winfrey dedicated a full hour
1:30.3	on her show to commemorate in the 10th anniversary of that book. So Gavin has been extremely
1:35.6	influential in how we think about violence, really at every level, from domestic violence, to workplace
1:42.9	violence, to stalking incidents with celebrities, acts of terrorism, assassination,
1:49.9	there's really no form of violence you can think of that Gavin hasn't weighed in on at some point.
1:57.3	He's worked with security at schools, so it's really the full footprint of violence in our society
2:03.9	and how it deranges human life. Gavin has made a study of this and his advice in this area is
2:11.2	extremely good. So I've been a student of Gavin's for many years. He's handled security for me
2:17.2	at my events, and he's just a great source of expertise on this topic. Gavin was very generous
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