Sam Altman — Leading with Crippling Anxiety, Discovering Meditation, and Building Intelligence with Self-Awareness

The Art of Accomplishment

Brett Kistler

Business, Education, Personal Development, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Management, Self-improvement

4.9 • 275 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Brett and Joe interview Sam Altman on how self-awareness gained through meditation can be combined with intelligence in business. Sam is an entrepreneur, investor and programmer. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator. Sam discusses his experiences with meditation and how it has transformed his decision making and resulted in a much calmer, more joyous default state of being. He explains some of the most profound realizations that he has had about himself and humanity in general through his work with AI. Join us to hear more about how Sam arrived at a place of calm detachment that allowed him to respond to challenging and stressful situations with ease. “Intelligence and awareness, to me, seem like that have to go together.”

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0:00.0	Like if you're trying to get as smart as possible, you want to be able to make the best predictions of what will happen.
0:06.0	And one of the things that will act is you.
0:09.0	So yeah, I think there is something there, which is intelligence and self-awareness to me seem like they have to go together.
0:16.0	Welcome to the art of accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.
0:25.1	I'm Brett Kisler, here today with my co-host, Joe Hudson.
0:32.3	All right, everybody, I'm really excited about our guest today.
0:36.1	Today we're speaking with Sam Altman.
0:38.9	Sam is the CEO of OpenAI,
0:40.7	and he's the former president of Y Combinator.
0:43.3	How are you doing today, Sam?
0:44.4	Doing really well.
0:45.0	Thanks for having me.
0:45.9	Yeah, awesome.
0:46.9	I'm really excited to talk to you just because it seems like
0:50.7	what you're doing and what we're doing is somewhat parallel
0:53.0	in that you're working to make sure that the AI that we create and make self-aware is aligned with human values.
1:01.2	And what we're doing is just making sure that humans are aligned with human values and discovering how to discover what those even are.
1:07.5	So I really am excited for this conversation.
1:10.6	Awesome. Me too. So Sam, I'd am excited for this conversation. Awesome. Me too.
1:11.4	So Sam, I'd love to dive into something that you learned about yourself over the course of your
1:16.0	life that really just changed your world and changed the way that you operate in business
1:21.0	and the way that you think about AI and about your life. I think there's a bunch of interesting
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