TMBA529: The Price of Progress
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We here at the Tropical MBA are always fascinated with people who raise questions that challenge the social narratives that most people follow.
It's no wonder then that Christoper Ryan caught our attention.
Christopher is a New York Times bestselling author, the host of a brilliant podcast called Tangentially Speaking, and is perhaps best known for his 2010 book Sex at Dawn.
Christopher recently published a new book called Civilized to Death, which argues that so-called "progress" has actually adversely affected the way we live.
He joins us today to talk about his unconventional path to becoming a published author, and why civilization might not represent progress.
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| 0:29.7 | Welcome back to the pod. It's Thursday. Thank you for joining us. I want to tell you a story. Can I do an |
| 0:41.1 | intro to this one? It might take me a little while. Hang with me here. Over the Christmas |
| 0:45.8 | break, I decided to shut the old laptop, get off the email completely, take a bunch of walks, |
| 0:52.6 | do a bit of a digital detox, and it was glorious. It really was. |
| 0:57.1 | I started to defrag a lot of things in my mind. It made me think, I got to do this a lot more. |
| 1:01.3 | I was making lists, getting organized, especially about how I felt about my goals, my life, |
| 1:08.1 | January, whatever. And that was amazing. And during that time, I earmarked a few |
| 1:13.5 | things to read and to listen to. And I don't remember why, but one was this podcast called Tengentially |
| 1:20.2 | Speaking. And that is run by a guy named Christopher Ryan, who recently released a new book |
| 1:26.4 | called Civilized to Death. And I also |
| 1:28.8 | had that book on my reading list. And so I pick up this book and I'm like, man, I just tore right |
| 1:34.3 | through it. And the audiobook version is excellent. But Chris is perhaps best known for his 2010 |
| 1:41.8 | book, Sex at Dawn. And I want to talk a little bit about why I find these |
| 1:47.7 | books so fascinating and thought-provoking. It's partially because this topic that he gestures |
| 1:55.0 | towards in both books was the first idea that I encountered in my life that truly rocked me intellectually. |
| 2:03.3 | That was when I was in high school, I picked up this book called The Story of B by Daniel Quinn. |
| 2:08.7 | And the thesis of the book is essentially, look, every story you've ever heard, every history |
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