The Drive Interview with Peter Attia

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 174 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Peter Attia about meditation and the nature of mind. They discuss types of meditation, the difference between pain and suffering, the difference between joy and wellbeing, the half-life of negative emotions, thinking and dreaming, the power of culture, the power of language, letting go of anger, MDMA, loving one's enemies, moral luck, the ethics of lying, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wicked In A Podcast.
0:21.7	This is Sam Harris.
0:24.3	Many things to cover in today's housekeeping.
0:27.0	You might not want to skip this one.
0:28.5	I think there will be something of relevance in here for most of you.
0:33.3	First, the name of the podcast is changing.
0:39.4	The truth is waking up was always the wrong name for this podcast.
0:45.2	As most of you know, I have a book by that title.
0:48.6	I now have a meditation app, which is a direct descendant of that book, dealing with all
0:57.0	of the material I cover in it in greater depth.
1:01.1	So there's now a fair amount of confusion about what my app is and how it relates to the
1:08.1	podcast.
1:09.7	So in order to protect the app and to put the podcast on true or footing, come some week
1:18.9	in January.
1:20.5	This podcast will be retitled making sense.
1:25.4	It will be the making sense podcast or making sense with Sam Harris.
1:31.2	And I think you'll agree that name actually makes more sense than waking up, given all
1:38.5	the topics I touch here.
1:40.4	So there's nothing for you to do.
1:42.4	It will appear on the same RSS feed.
1:47.2	Everyone's membership on my site and in my app will be as it is.
1:52.9	All the old episodes of the podcast will still be available, at least for now.
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