Sam Harris: Breaking the thought trap of anger

"You can't possibly exaggerate how much better it is to live in a peaceful, orderly society, and to be wealthy, and healthy, and surrounded by people who you love and who love you, and to be surrounded by increasingly happy strangers who just want to cooperate with you." Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►    / @bigthink   Up next, Sam Harris: The great problem of our time ►    • Sam Harris: The great problem of our time   What if the chaos in your life (and in the world as a whole) isn’t caused by evil, but caused by ordinary people trapped in bad mindsets? The real enemy, Sam Harris argues, isn’t each other. It’s the stories that we so often mistake for the truth. If you’re burned out, stuck in anger, feeling devoid of compassion, Harris offers clarity, and a path to escaping your mind. 00:00 Why compassion is critical 02:27 Sufficient knowledge, sufficient cooperation 04:15 Inherited advantages 07:40 The choice we have to make 08:00 Human conversation as tool 10:11 The most surprising thing about dreams 12:01 Consciousness and its object 14:27 What is the optimal state to be in? 15:24 How to get off the ride of anger 17:02 Its so easy to tell yourself a story 19:20 Unclenching the fist in your mind Read the video transcript ► https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-t... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go Deeper with Big Think: ►Become a Big Think Member Get exclusive content, early, ad-free access to new releases, and more.    / @bigthink   ►Get Big Think+ for Business Engage learners like never before with high-impact video microlearning from the biggest thinkers in the world. https://bigthink.com/plus/?utm_source... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Sam Harris: Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. Mr. Harris' writing has been published in over ten languages. He and his work have been discussed in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, Scientific American, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Nature, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. Mr. Harris is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and holds a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA, where he studied the neural basis of belief with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). He is also a Co-Founder and CEO of Project Reason.