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#295 - Philosophy and the Good Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Tealick Activities

An excessive investment in tealick activities or the kinds of things we call projects can sort of obscure the value of atelic activities. I think one kind of evaluative distortion were subject to meditation of a certain kind can help to liberate us from has to do with an excessive investment in them. We would be really missing something if we didn't see that there was a certain kind of value in just reflecting on and thinking about these difficult problems about human life independent of any particular end product that produces.

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