On: What is True?

Episode: 62

Date: January 2017

Background: Clinical psychologist, professor of psychology, author of “12 Rules for Life“.

Key Subjects:

• Freedom of speech.
• The nature of truth.

Key Takeaways:

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Worth Listening:

A two hour, somewhat fascinating, verbal battle. The “meta-interesting” thing in listening to this is that this conversation perhaps illustrates the dangers of being an intelligent, skilled orator: you enjoy the art of arguing more than trying to have a productive conversation. Both Harris and Peterson would probably vehemently deny that this is the case and they both loudly proclaim their interest in talking to someone with a different point of view during the podcast, but the reality sounded different, at least in this case. Both seemed to be uninterested in entertaining the possibility of a shift in perspective or in looking to combine their ideas into something different or new. Perhaps this podcast format or approach doesn’t work best for that.

6/10