Is There a Relationship to Identity?

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"There really is no comparison to others that is a psychologically healthy basis for satisfaction," he says. "Mother nature doesn't care if you're happy, Mother nature has other goals for you." The only understanding of myself reflected through what sam harris thinks of me is an understanding of the world in which i live. And most people are all at communion with me right now and I don't think there's any difference between us.

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.

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