Steven Pinker on the Pursuit of Rationality | Never Wish Away A Minute of Your Life

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Stoic Philosophy, Stoicism, Philosophy, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, 694393, Stoic, Ryan Holiday, Business, Daily Stoic

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🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to author Steven Pinker about his new book Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, the importance of pursuing effective altruism, the responsibility of institutions to protect the common good, and more.

Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a popular writer on language, mind, and human nature. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and his academic specializations are visual cognition and developmental linguistics. Pinker is also the author of eight books and was named in Time's "The 100 Most Influential People in the World Today" in 2004.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcasts early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:11.2	Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each weekday we bring you a
0:16.3	Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short
0:20.0	passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life and on Wednesdays
0:27.5	We talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy well-known and obscure
0:34.0	Fascinating and powerful with them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and
0:40.9	Also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives, but first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors
0:53.3	Never wish away a minute of your life
0:56.2	You want this to be over right when can this and when can life go back to normal?
1:01.4	We've said this a million times to ourselves not just during the pandemic, but countless times in ordinary circumstances
1:08.4	When we were excited for Christmas to come already when we waited for a friend who called ahead to say that they'd be late
1:14.2	While we were listening to that boring lecture in his book travels with Epicurus the writer Daniel Klein recalls a formative moment
1:21.6	I remember one long ago evening he said on an overcrowded train to Philadelphia
1:27.5	Hearing a young woman moan to her mother. God. I wish we were there already her white haired mother replied eloquently
1:35.2	Darling never wish away a minute of your life
1:40.0	Remember what Seneca Epicurus's rival and secret fan would say life is in short
1:44.6	We just wasted we wasted it wishing for things to be otherwise
1:48.2	We wasted it waiting for it to be over we wasted by ignoring what's in front of us
1:52.0	We wasted by resenting complaining rejecting now is now can never be anything else now is your life
1:59.0	Live it love it. That's all you can do you won't get anything else you won't get another moment
2:05.0	Never wish away a minute of your life. It's a gift
2:08.6	Should you choose to accept it to me?
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