The New Car Smell Isn't Going to Last.

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

How much of this is an actual difference in these sub types of intelligence, and how much of it is just energy and ambition and life circumstance? Meso therma, many people delay having families. There's a period in your twenties and even early to mid thirties where if you're playing an academic or entrabernereal game and waiting for pitza to be pushed under the door, you very likely don't have kids. And again, you've got,. you've got a kind of endless energy just to burn the candle at both ends.

Sam Harris speaks with Arthur C. Brooks about what it takes to build a good life. They discuss the power of social comparison, the intelligence taboo, political dignity and ethical hierarchy, the Dalai Lama, the nature of love, fluid and crystallized intelligences, the strange case of Linus Pauling, the limits of identity, atheism and religious faith, fear of death, psychedelics, existentialism, St. Thomas Aquinas, and other topics.

If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.

Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.