Daniel Schmachtenberger || Upgrade Your Consciousness

The Psychology Podcast

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Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today’s guest on The Psychology Podcast is the polymath Daniel Schmachtenberger, a social engineer, evolutionary philosopher, and strategist. This episode discusses a wide range of consciousness-raising issues, including the biology of dysfunction, the philosophy and scientific implications of creating systemic cultural and personal changes, the difference between nootropics and smart drugs, the future of cognitive assessments and the quantified self, the future of customized medical and wellness protocols, aspects of human nature that impede compassion and kindness, how changing the genome will change our entire conception of human nature, what we can do to predispose humans toward perspective taking, emotional resilience, and greater empathy, and how to make a scientifically commensurate ethics and existentialism. As you can see, this episode covers quite the gamut. Enjoy, and please leave comments below! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give
0:04.8	you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. Each episode will feature a new
0:09.7	guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.
0:15.0	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.
0:18.0	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. Daniel, it's so great to have you on the show today.
0:42.0	Daniel, it's so great to have you on the show today.
0:42.5	I'm happy to be here.
0:43.3	Thanks for having.
0:44.4	A lot of things we can talk about.
0:46.3	You're a very, very interesting guy,
0:49.0	which is why I wanted to get you on this show.
0:50.7	I knew there was lots of areas that we could discuss. I'd like to first
0:54.7	start talking a little bit about your childhood because you had a very interesting educational
0:59.3	path, isn't that right? Or a different, a different educational path different and interesting yeah both yeah
1:07.0	tell me a little bit about it and and sort of how you saw the education system yeah I
1:11.8	didn't know much about education system because I wasn't exposed to it. I was home taught growing up and I went to public school for a very brief period a few times as an experiment and a few
1:24.6	different private schools but the vast majority of my childhood education is
1:28.8	homeschooled and the reason was my parents were kind of educational philosophers and were interested to see what would happen if a kid didn't have any fixed curriculum and was just exposed to all the things they could be exposed to,
1:43.0	and then their interests were facilitated.
1:45.0	So it was a very kind of constructivist idea.
1:48.0	So that was it.
1:48.6	I didn't have a certain amount of social studies
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