Daniel Pink and Brian Lowery Aren’t Sure That You Exist

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Daniel Pink is going through an existential crisis. The culprit? A new book by Stanford professor Brian Lowery. --- If you want to attend our November 1st event with Daniel Markovits and Jennifer Breheny Wallace, head to our Eventbrite page. And if you want early invitations to upcoming events, sign up for one of our new Next Big Idea Club memberships.

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0:00.0	real quick before we get started. We're hosting a live taping of this show in New York City
0:04.8	on November 1st. I'll be sitting down with Yale Law Professor Daniel Markovitz and Jennifer
0:09.5	Wallace all through the new Neurotimes bestseller never enough. Together the three of us are going to
0:14.8	try to figure out why teenagers are so stressed not to mention the rest of us and what we can do
0:20.6	to fix that. We'll get into how we can encourage kids to strive towards excellence without crushing
0:26.3	them. The problem with meritocracy and how AI will change the future of work and education.
0:32.9	Join us for cocktails, conversation, and a dinner following. It would be great to meet you
0:37.4	to buy tickets and to get early invitations to our future events. Follow the links in the episode
0:43.4	notes. LinkedIn presents. I don't want to go completely woo-woo on people listening to this,
0:53.2	but like the person I am when we started this conversation is different from the person I'm
0:57.2	going to be when we when we end this conversation because of that encounter. There's something
1:01.9	kind of beautiful about that. Every interaction is a moment of creation like both in both directions.
1:07.4	It's amazing. I'm Rufus Griskem and this is the next big idea. Today Brian Lowry and Daniel
1:16.1	Pank on What Makes You You a few months ago I interviewed Brian Lowry about his book
1:41.5	Selfless, The Social Creation of You. It's a riveting, slightly unsettling read in which Brian,
1:48.0	who teaches social psychology at Stanford, argues that you don't have an essential self.
1:54.0	There's no you under your control. The voicing your head is the byproduct of all your social
1:59.6	interactions, the feedback you get from the world. You're not a singular autonomous self,
2:05.2	you're more of a joint venture between your biology and your relationships. Unnerving,
2:11.6	are we really also malleable? If there's no essential me, then who the heck am I?
2:18.3	Brian believes that embracing this view that were social creations is in fact liberating,
2:23.6	and I've come to agree with him. Think of it this way. If we give up this delusion that we are the
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