#209 — A Good Life

Sam Harris speaks with Scott Barry Kaufman about human
well-being. They discuss intelligence and creativity, wisdom and
transcendence, the history of humanistic psychology, Maslow's
hierarchy of needs, the connection between well-being and ethics,
self-esteem, psychedelics and meditation, peak and plateau
experiences, mortality salience, the pre-trans fallacy, fear of
uncertainty, work and meaning, intrinsic vs. extrinsic rewards,
pathological altruism, intimacy vs. belonging, two aspects of
self-transcendence, and other topics.


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