#291 — Where is Happiness?

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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