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#219 - The Power of Compassion

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Pernicious Mythology of Self-Made People

There's a pernicious mythology here around the notion of being a self-made person. There are millions of people who won no lottery whatsoever except in seeming to accumulate all the bad luck the universe has to give them and it's through no genius of my own or your own that we're not among those people at this moment. That really can be the kernel around which compassion forms.

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