The internet makes it easy to live inside our own little content bubbles where we are protected from any viewpoints other than those with which we already agree. But this is a big problem. When we aren't exposed to opposing perspectives, we don’t learn how to relate to the people who hold them. I’ve put together a short list of tips for engaging with people who hold views contrary to your own.
Break Out of Your Content Bubble (w/ Harleen Kaur)
In this episode, I speak with entrepreneur and former NASA engineer, Harleen Kaur. Harleen is the founder of Ground News, a news platform that helps combat media bias by allowing people to compare how different news outlets from across the political spectrum are covering the same story. The topic of news intersects nicely with other topics I write about here, like confirmation bias and values.
This Man Read 450 Classic Books and Distilled Their Best Ideas
In this episode, I speak with author, Tom-Butler Bowdon. Tom has distilled the most important ideas from hundreds of classic books across multiple genres, including psychology, spirituality, and philosophy into an epic set of books called The 50 Classics Series.
A Framework for Improving Your Relationships with Dr. Amir Levine
In this episode, I speak with psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine. We talk about attachment theory, which is the subject of his best-selling book, Attached.