My Chat with Dr. Darrin McMahon, Historian of Happiness (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_351)

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Topics include a global history of happiness including that espoused by the Ancient Greeks (e.g., Epicurus, Aristotle), equality versus equity, the study of geniuses, grit and discipline, writing books versus peer-reviewed articles, history as a discipline straddling the humanities and the social sciences, applying the evolutionary lens in the study of history, and the greatest idea ever devised. Darrin's website: http://www.darrinmcmahon.com _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (January 12, 2022) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1359: https://youtu.be/_ktNJxfTJfI _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Here we go. Hi everybody first guest of the new year today Darren McMahon first I'd like to say hello then I'd like to read your bio for how you doing sir
0:14.2	I'm doing wonderful. Thank you. Okay so you are the Mary Brinsmead Wielock professor of history at Dartmouth College. I was a visiting professor at
0:19.2	Dartmouth College back in 2002. We can talk about our respective experiences in Hanover, New Hampshire after.
0:27.2	You are the author of several books and editor of several books, co-editor.
0:31.2	Let me just read them for our folks. So here we've got enemies of the
0:36.5	Enlightenment, the French counter-enlightament and the Making of Modernity 2001.
0:40.3	The one that made me aware of who you are, the one that I'm reading right here, this guy,
0:47.0	Happiness a History awarded the best Book of the Year honors by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the
0:52.3	Library Journal, and Slate magazine,
0:54.0	Wow.
0:55.0	Then Divine Fury, a history of genius, some interesting things that we could talk about that one,
1:00.0	and then several co-edited books, The Enlightenment, critical concepts in historical studies,
1:05.6	rethinking modern European intellectual history and genealogies of genius.
1:10.4	Did I cover pretty much everything there? Pretty much, absolutely.
1:14.0	All right.
1:15.0	Okay, so then let me just mention to people how we connected.
1:18.0	You are a historian by profession.
1:21.0	I'm working right now on my latest book which I need to submit by the end of March
1:25.9	so the clock is sticking with my publisher although they're very nice about never reminding me of
1:30.8	the clock and I'm the book is about the recipe or a recipe for the good life and
1:36.4	so I'm immersing myself in all sorts of treaties on happiness and contentment and well-being
1:41.8	and so on.
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