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32 : Eric Weinstein – Contrarian thinking, violence, growth and preference falsification

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An extremely thought provoking episode of The Portal featuring Peter Thiel. Weinstein and Thiel cover a lot of ground discussing beliefs they hold about how the world works. These aren’t viewpoints that we hear a lot about in our daily newsfeeds.

Today’s episode is inspired by podcast The Portal (Ep 1) by Eric Weinstein.

  • [00:00] Introduction: Podcast the portal episode 1 |
  • [01:56] Chats to obsolete machines use at different fields |
  • [09:00] Brief Intro: Peter Thiel, a contrarian |
  • [14:08] Overview: Life of Eric Weinstein |
  • [17:06] The portal: Contrarian thinking |
  • [24:58] The portal: Changes in inventions and discoveries |
  • [36:34] Thoughts about universities being business oriented |
  • [40:42] Why does Thiel and Weinstein think that growth is important? |
  • [45:34] Start to think big again |
  • [48:36] How violence is everywhere |
  • [56:58] What if things stop growing? |
  • [ 1:05:17] Progress that can be made |
  • [ 1:13:25] Episode’s takeaways |

    • As with each episode, we pluck out what most resonated from the podcast and how we would like to bring it into our lives.

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