#219 — The Power of Compassion

Sam Harris speaks with James R. Doty about his memoir “Into the
Magic Shop.” They discuss the significance of childhood stress,
the possibility of changing one’s core beliefs about oneself, the
relationship between surgeons and their patients, the nature of
compassion, the Dalai Lama, the relationship between wealth and
empathy, the worsening problem of social inequality, the
physiology of compassion, the broken healthcare system in the
U.S., and other topics.


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