Alain de Botton (Part 2) - How to Deal with Jealousy and Keep Your Partner Faithful
Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat
Mo Gawdat
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🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps |
| 0:16.3 | some nuggets of wisdom along the way. |
| 0:20.3 | This is your invitation to slow down with us. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to slow more. |
| 0:27.0 | This we are now. This will be part two of my conversation with one of the most requested guests I have been asked to have on the podcast, a world-renowned philosopher, an international best-selling author |
| 0:46.6 | and on the baton. |
| 0:49.0 | So the challenge I have is that if you look at that script of romanticism and how our 20th |
| 0:57.1 | century has evolved that script through movies and Hollywood and stories that are being told in a very specific way and novels that are always written around jealousy and adultery and betrayal and all of that because that's the drama moment that throws the audience in. |
| 1:14.0 | And then the current evolution of that script into modern world dating, modern world hookups, |
| 1:22.1 | modern world relationship definitions, which are actually quite interestingly |
| 1:27.0 | opposite almost to romanticism, but not in the direction of love. |
| 1:31.0 | Where do you think we're going with all of this? |
| 1:33.9 | Look, I think there are some attempts |
| 1:37.2 | to broaden the conversation around |
| 1:41.6 | what, let's say, a normal sexuality is. |
| 1:45.0 | I think in the United States, |
| 1:47.0 | polyamory in Malverny, I think it's still considered a sin |
| 1:50.0 | by 92% of the population. |
| 1:52.0 | So I think this is quite a long way to go. by 92% of the population. |
| 1:52.5 | So I think this is quite a long way to go. |
| 1:55.3 | But look, in some areas, there's an attempt, |
| 1:58.7 | you know, which really begins in the West |
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