Adam Smith's Adam Smith Lecture Series - I've Never Read Gerard

I've only watched your first part of your seven-part lecture series. I think Gerard is the kind of thinker that when I was younger, I would say, it's a bunch of nonsense. But as I've gotten older, I find them much more provocative. Adam Smith said man naturally desires not only to be loved, but to be lovely. We should choose carefully who we hang out with, because we are going to be influenced by them. And what that does for my sense of identity in a circle of people who have their own perceptions of me and of what's important,. That's also very hard to resist.