Making Sense with Sam Harris — #209 — A Good Life

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#209 — A Good Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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,…

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