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#677: HERESIES — Exploring Animal Communication, Cloning Humans, The Dangers of The American Dream, and More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The American Dream

I think that it's all American culture bounded, where if you're failing to meet this high kind of this Billy Crystal standard from movies in the 80s and 90s. I don't know that there's any analog to that type of failure in modern China or India. You live with your parents, you go to college, and then you move down the street when you get married. And I'm pretty sure there isn't a version of that in Italy or Greece. A lot of the people who are doing some of the worst things in the United States right now are people who have gone through that experience of failure.

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