Ep. 71 - Sam Harris: Is Sam Harris the Smartest Person Alive?

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Business, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2014

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris, a brilliant and often controversial author and lecturer, joins James today to talk about science, religion, spirituality, and Ben Affleck. Ted.com has said of him... "Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can - and should - be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life." Sam is willing to take on the topics that most run from. Today he and James dive into all of them. What is consciousness? How does something as simple as a thought take over you? You have an angry thought and suddenly you're angry. How can a happy thought make you happy? Is this controllable and should you want to control your thoughts? Sam says yes... The energy of anger can be very useful. There are times when you want to convey anger. Detaching yourself from passion can become a huge liability and often unhealthy. This is an amazing interview. Open your mind and allow some of Sam's ideas to force you to think deeply. ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.0	This is the James Altiger show on the Stansbury Radio Network.
0:20.0	This is James Altiger. I'm very happy to be here with Sam Harris, author of Waking Up,
0:26.0	a Guide to Spirituality Without Religion.
0:29.0	Sam, you've done like a million things though actually.
0:32.0	Like you're a neuroscientist, you're a philosopher.
0:35.0	You seem to get into a lot of arguments with very famous people all the time.
0:40.0	And you've also wrote a big essay about lying.
0:45.0	I'm sure I'm missing other things.
0:47.0	You travel all around the world studying spirituality and meditation and all sorts of things.
0:54.0	How's it going?
0:56.0	It's going well. It's colorful at the moment.
0:59.0	I don't know if you've been following my recent collisions, but yeah, it's been an odd book tour,
1:07.0	which I'm just winding down.
1:09.0	But thank you for talking to me. It's a pleasure to be here.
1:12.0	Let me ask you about that. I do want to get into my main goal is I want to get people a feeling of how they can use the lessons you learn from waking up to improve their lives.
1:24.0	But I am very curious about during the process of this book tour, obviously you've gotten into a lot of fights.
1:30.0	And maybe like just what happened like so so so Ben Affleck on the Bill Marshall was like yelling at you.
1:38.0	What what happened there?
1:40.0	Well, you know, I don't actually know what happened there.
1:43.0	What would fully accounts for it. I know I know what it's effects were, but the reality was, you know, I came on to the panel on that show,
1:51.0	which if your listeners don't know, is there's a mid panel interview. There's a panel of three people and there's a mid panel interview where someone comes out and gets a protected five to seven minutes of interview time with with Bill and then it gets opened up to the rest of the panel.
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