When I was a kid growing up mainly you'd watch the news for like half an hour every day. Now they're pumping it into your home on your mobile phone and your brain is 24-7 now. We need to kind of up our game like and learn to protect ourselves more rigorously, he says. In ancient world people were much more skilled in critical thinking than we are today at least they put a lot more effort into learning it i think they'd wipe the floor with us in that regard.
This is the audio of an interview I gave recently for Book Club with Kaiden Kelly, talking about How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, Verissimus, and Stoicism, self-help and modern psychology.
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