NonzeroClips | Life Is in the Transitions | Robert Wright & Bruce Feiler [The Wright Show] @MeaningoflifeTV | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
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2:52 Bruce’s new book, Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
10:29 Debunking the idea of the “predictable crises of adult life”
16:35 Two kinds of life changes: “disruptors” and “lifequakes”
27:42 Does Bob need a lifequake?
37:56 Bruce: “The linear model of life transitions is just wrong”
44:14 Millennials zigging and zagging
51:09 The ABCs of meaning: agency, belonging, cause
57:32 How to write your own life story
73:55 Are the stories we tell about ourselves just BS? And is that okay?
79:39 How to change the meaning of your life
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Bruce Feiler (brucefeiler.com)
Recorded July 28, 2020
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2:52 Bruce’s new book, Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
10:29 Debunking the idea of the “predictable crises of adult life”
16:35 Two kinds of life changes: “disruptors” and “lifequakes”
27:42 Does Bob need a lifequake?
37:56 Bruce: “The linear model of life transitions is just wrong”
44:14 Millennials zigging and zagging
51:09 The ABCs of meaning: agency, belonging, cause
57:32 How to write your own life story
73:55 Are the stories we tell about ourselves just BS? And is that okay?
79:39 How to change the meaning of your life
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Bruce Feiler (brucefeiler.com)
Recorded July 28, 2020
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![Life Is in the Transitions | Robert Wright & Bruce Feiler [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WQuRf5ApSF4/hqdefault.jpg "Life Is in the Transitions | Robert Wright & Bruce Feiler [The Wright Show]
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2:52 Bruce’s new book, Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
10:29 Debunking the idea of the “predictable crises of adult life”
16:35 Two kinds of life changes: “disruptors” and “lifequakes”
27:42 Does Bob need a lifequake?
37:56 Bruce: “The linear model of life transitions is just wrong”
44:14 Millennials zigging and zagging
51:09 The ABCs of meaning: agency, belonging, cause
57:32 How to write your own life story
73:55 Are the stories we tell about ourselves just BS? And is that okay?
79:39 How to change the meaning of your life
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Bruce Feiler (brucefeiler.com)
Recorded July 28, 2020
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![The Great Disintegration | Daniel Kaufman & Oliver Burkeman [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XKoYkLhJy7w/hqdefault.jpg "The Great Disintegration | Daniel Kaufman & Oliver Burkeman [Sophia]
04:06 Journalism, from information scarcity to attention scarcity
10:02 Is it harder to find “good” information these days? 10:02
19:40 Oliver: Reliance on social media creates false controversies
30:54 Has the mainstream media really drifted towards partisanship?
46:01 How to dismantle the partisan divide
57:34 Dan: Americans were more divided in 1968 than now
1:14:15 Social injustice: Perception, reality, and urgency
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Oliver Burkeman (The Guardian, The Antidote)
Recorded July 9, 2019
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![Should the Humanities Go On Strike? | Daniel Kaufman & Nathan Eckstrand [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZDujs_QFeS4/hqdefault.jpg "Should the Humanities Go On Strike? | Daniel Kaufman & Nathan Eckstrand [Sophia]
00:19 Nathan’s recent essay, “Is it Time for the Humanities to Strike?”
5:03 The attack on the humanities goes international
18:31 Are non-college graduates deficient voters?
24:47 Why the educated elite aren’t the most ethical people
28:51 Could a strike re-engage the public with the humanities?
39:34 How to win over those who most thoroughly reject the humanities
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Nathan Eckstrand (Fort Hays State University, Blog of the APA)
Recorded June 12, 2019
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![The Rights of Animals | Robert Wright & Ingrid Newkirk [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_T7z4DCd4oQ/hqdefault.jpg "The Rights of Animals | Robert Wright & Ingrid Newkirk [The Wright Show]
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0:00 Ingrid’s new book, Animalkind
8:36 Animal rights vs. animal welfare
17:32 Amazing facts about animals (and the many things we still don’t know)
22:52 Is it bad to call your dog a “pet” (or for that matter “yours”)?
30:31 Contemplating animal consciousness
38:13 How unethical is Bob’s pescatarian diet?
46:26 The rise of artificial meat
51:51 Ingrid asks, “Do you think that animal was a volunteer?”
59:32 Ingrid’s extremely unusual last will and testament
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Ingrid Newkirk (PETA, ingridnewkirk.com)
Recorded July 22, 2020
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![Quantum Mechanics and Other Mysteries | John Horgan & Amanda Gefter [Mind-Body Problems]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aGb9SVZhCwc/hqdefault.jpg "Quantum Mechanics and Other Mysteries | John Horgan & Amanda Gefter [Mind-Body Problems]
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A conversation about nothing inspires a career in science writing. Physicist John Wheelers participatory cosmos. A new interpretation of quantum mechanics. Amandas second-person solution to the mind-body problem.
John Horgan (Stevens Institute of Technology, The End of Science) and Amanda Gefter (Trespassing on Einsteins Lawn). Recorded December 15, 2020.
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![Objectivity and Realism | Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/auaqR4d3z8A/hqdefault.jpg "Objectivity and Realism | Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci [Sophia]
Are we really as social as the Stoics believed? 04:31
Distinguishing between the “objective” and the “real”... 22:45
...and between the “real” and representations of the “real” 39:32
Dan: It makes no difference whether or not values are objective 44:32
Massimo’s solution to the omnivore’s dilemma 56:40
Massimo: “Values are never separate from facts” 1:06:01
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY Graduate Center, Platos Footnote, How to Be a Stoic)
Recorded April 15, 2020
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