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

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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