WHEN SAM HARRIS MET VIRONIKA WILDE
The appeal of good quotes fades over time, even the witty ones of Sam Harris and Vironika Tugaleva. That is why we merged them in a socratic dialogue. This time we look at the importance of self awareness. We have gathered two outspoken and awakened personalities to shed a little light on how to train the mind. The self-acclaimed tree hugger, poet, and queer activist Vironika Tugaleva (aka Vironika Wilde) and the one and only neuroscientist became philosopher morphed to super podcast intellectual Sam Harris.
Vironika: “To know yourself, you must sacrifice the illusion that you already do.”
Sam: “My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again.”
Vironika: “Self-awareness is like eating, breathing, sleeping. There will be no fireworks, no miracle transformation. Instead you will experience a slow, conscious, and often painful unraveling of your highest potential.”
Sam: “Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.”
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