Podcast Club ONLINE: A Honey Badger's Guide to a Good Life
Details
This week's podcast is The Michael Shermer Show, with host Michael Shermer and guest Gad Saad, PhD, a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, where he held the Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption for 10 years. He is a pioneer in the application of evolutionary psychology to consumer behavior and has authored several books and written over 75 scientific publications. He has held Visiting Associate Professorships at Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and the University of California-Irvine. His latest book is The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life.
NOTE: Please listen to the podcast below before attending the event.
https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/gad-saad-8-secrets-for-happiness/
or
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show/id1352860989?i=1000622318012
(1 hr., 58 min.)
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What's this podcast about?
We've listened to previous podcasts about happiness and leading a good life. So how is this week's episode any different? Podcast guest Gad Saad is a self-proclaimed honey badger, approaching life with self-assurance and complete authenticity, unafraid to offend. Here, he shares his many (and perhaps controversial) thoughts on how best to live, which are the subject of his book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life. His ideas incorporate our propensities for certain behaviors based in human evolutionary biology/psychology and other scientific findings. Topics discussed are many and varied, including the value of a spouse; why men (and not women) have porn addictions and women (and not men) have eating disorders; how terrible hardships can make you happier; why men have become more wimpy; what the real value of money is; limitations to variety being the spice of life; the value of temporal freedom; and much more.
What's a podcast club?
It's like a book club for podcasts. Each week we discuss an interesting and currently relevant episode from podcasters like Ezra Klein, Michael Shermer, or Russ Roberts. We start off as a large group and spend most of the time talking in small break-out groups, which we remix 3 times over the course of the evening. Our conversations are casual and open. We encourage everyone to speak freely, respectfully, and concisely. To do this, we try to adhere to Grice's Maxims: https://bit.ly/2p4uSQm
Ultimately, the idea is to help each other think a little differently, learn a thing or two and have some fun.