Daniel Kahneman: Thinking fast and slow
[29:43] In order to improve everyday thinking, we need to understand the difficulties we’re operating under an…
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Crash Course Philosophy #46: What Is A Good Life?
[9:17] In our final episode of Crash Course Philosophy, we consider what it means to live a good life. We’ll look at the …
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Crash Course Psychology #37: Social Thinking
[10:47] Why do people do bad things? Is it because of the situation or who they are at their core? In this week’s epi…
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Crash Course Psychology #38: Social Influence
[10:07] Why do people sometimes do bad things just because someone else told them to? And what does the term Groupthink m…
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Wisdom
[7:38] Philosophy means, in Ancient Greek, the love of wisdom. But the word wisdom can sound very big and forbidding; wh…
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Peter Singer: How to Live an Ethical Life
[5:09] Peter Singer tackles poverty and the environment. [Video source: Big Think YouTube link]…
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EASTERN PHILOSOPHY – Matsuo Basho
[5:46] Matsuo Basho was one of the most famous Zen poets of Japan, who alerts us to the neglected beauty and interest of ev…
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Sam Harris: The meaning of life
[6:42] Life, death & the present moment. A lecture from Sam Harris that I chopped up, fit together and overlaid with …
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Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
[18:16] Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? …
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Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve
[10:24] Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain’s capacity to learn …
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