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#352 — Hubris & Chaos
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Producing Solutions, Not Problems
The key insight is the importance of producing solutions instead of focusing on what cannot be done. The speaker recalls a senior State Department official's admonition to stop generating problems and start providing solutions, emphasizing the need to move past the idea of what cannot be achieved and instead focus on how to achieve it. The snippet also discusses the contrasting views on nation-building projects, highlighting the examples of successful nation-building projects post-World War II but also challenging the assumption that such projects are universally feasible.
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