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Feb 2020
29m 20s

#184 — The Conversational Nature of Real...

SAM HARRIS
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Sam Harris speaks with poet David Whyte about the importance of work and relationships, the balance between training and expressing of one's talents, the lessons of mortality, and other topics.

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