Steven Kotler: Weaponizing Victimhood, The Future of Humanity, Measuring Empathy | EP 399

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

How can we make our society more equalitarian, fair, and empathetic? In this episode of the Align podcast, Steven Kotler and I chat about species die off and how the current circumstances we find in our world may be contributing to the human species die-off. Steven also shares with us if there is really any evolutionary value to hate and how it can be used as weapon by humans. Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. What we discuss: 02:12: What is species die-off? 03:24: Does the declining birth rate have any impact on the human species die-off? 07:02: How can we measure empathy of a generation? 09:18: How can we cultivate empathy? 15:00: What is the value of the flow state? 23:16: Can we experience our life as different chapters? 32:17: What is Steven’s meditation practice? 38:52: Is there any evolutionary value to hate? 54:54: What is the value in tripping evolution? To learn more about Steven: Instagram: @stevenkotler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander and this is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement. Today's guest is my friend Stephen Kotler. I am honored and privileged to call Stephen a friend.
0:17.2	He is one of the most prolific prominent writers, journalists, and investigators, this world possesses, and I'm very grateful that he exists.
0:27.7	He's got a ton of New York Times best-selling books.
0:31.2	He's been published in anywhere you could shake a stick at, New York Times,
0:35.0	L.A. Times, Wired, I'm just reading off a list, GQ, all over the place. I really value Stephen
0:40.3	immensely and I think you guys are going to enjoy this conversation. I want to thank you guys for
0:46.8	leaving reviews on wherever you listen to this. So if you're on your phone or whatever, scroll down,
0:52.2	press the subscribe button so you get each week's episodes and if you do leave review a good chance I'll read it like this one I'm going to read one I'm just going to pick a random one. This is from Michael Unbroken.
1:03.7	Michael Broken says, great podcast. I just want to take a moment and say thank you for
1:07.3	creating such an impactful podcast. I believe that we all have a voice that
1:10.7	deserves to be heard. Thank you for putting this into the world. Be
1:14.9	unbroken. Michael unbroken. So look up Michael unbroken out there. If you want to leave a
1:19.8	review, leave your handle. I'm happy to read on here, probably get some random misfits stumbling into your
1:26.2	profile. That's it, that's all. Thank you so much for tuning in. Let's get to it with my guy, Stephen
1:30.8	Cutler Poe. Thanks so much for making time. guy Stephen Cutler, Pow.
1:37.5	Thanks so much for making time to do this again. Stephen Kotler.
1:38.6	It's nice to see you,
1:39.6	it's good to see you, man.
1:40.5	Last time, I think the last time,
1:42.0	was the last time I saw you, was it the flow genome thing with with
1:45.3	Jamie in Colorado or was there time I think we saw I think we saw each other once after
1:50.7	that well it's always a pleasure it is always pleasure but it's after that
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