Scott Barry Kaufman On The Science of Transcendence

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 152 minutes

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In today’s episode, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman joins Rich to discuss the science of self-actualization and transcendence. Scott is a cognitive scientist and humanistic psychologist who has taught at Columbia, Yale, NYU, and Penn. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale, a M. Phil in experimental psychology from the University of Cambridge and a B.S. in psychology and human computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon. He is the founder and director of the Center for the Science of Human Potential and hosts the #1 psychology podcast, The Psychology Podcast. His latest book is entitled Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization. The video version of this episode is available HERE. Rich’s new book, Voicing Change, Vol. II is available HERE. Full show notes & additional information on this episode is available HERE. Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm super proud to announce the publication of Voicing Change Volume 2.
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0:19.3	podcast guests.
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0:34.2	Supply is limited, so act today.
0:36.7	Alright, let's do the show.
0:40.4	Do you have any goal at all of growing as a human being, of being a better person?
0:44.3	Is that an all goal for you?
0:46.2	Do you ever feel like there are things pulling you in different directions with inside of
0:50.1	you that you want to harmonize in any way?
0:52.9	You know, feeling comfortable within your own self and not feeling you have constantly
0:56.1	proved something.
0:57.6	In coaching we have something called powerful questions, right?
0:59.9	So what are powerful questions that you can ask to help transform a person?
1:03.2	I think a really powerful question in asking all of us, you know, is are there inner conflicts
1:10.2	within you that if they were resolved, this big grandiose motivation you have would be
1:14.4	quelled?
1:15.4	Because I do think for most of us, yes they would.
1:18.1	We often find there are a lot of grandiose, narcissistic dreams and goals we had at one
1:22.8	point, which we just totally don't have anymore because we've done inner work.
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