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#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Why Do We Write People Off?

i'm trying to explore the tension between that sort of impact on a book and our desire, or lack of desire, to then pick it up and learn something from it. It's almost like we write it off mentally and as of, oh, this has nothing good to say because, you know, we inter some sort of blanket statement. And then we miss out on so much because we're not willing to explore ideas of people and separate them, possibly from the person. i think darwin ultimately was arguing for what is common to all human beings - which is love of art, morality, vulnerable things. For one be important to remember that science tells us about two different kinds of

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