Scott Barry Kaufman || Transcend
The Psychology Podcast
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The Sailboat Metaphor
I want to really show that humans can be greater than the sum of their parts. We're not just identified with our modules. So I think there's something we can use the evolutionary approach to understand the parts of us. But I'm ultimately interested in how the whole organism deals with those paradoxes of human existence and lives their own good life in their own way. How do they self-actualize in their own direction or is Maslow put it in their own style? And to me, that's what's really, really fascinating about humans,. Our ability to supersede or to become greaterthan the sum of the parts.
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