Episode description

Jonathan Rowson (chess Grandmaster, metamodernist philosopher) is one of Britain’s biggest minds and I have invited him onto Wild to talk, well, what’s been dubbed the “meta-crisis” – the fundamental “meaning” crisis at the heart of “all the things” going on in the world today.

Jonathan is a theoretical psychologist with degrees from Oxford and Harvard and a Ph.D on what it means to become wiser. He has worked on “complex collective action” problem solving, was Director of the Social Brain Centre at the Royal Society of Arts and has run events with David Attenborough and Jordan Peterson (not on the same stage!). Jonathan now runs Perspectiva, a research institute that seeks to understand the relationship between systems, souls, and society.

This is a big chat, but I think you’ll find this new and wild idea a helpful navigational tool for, well, “all the things”.

SHOW NOTES

As I flag, my UK friends can preorder This One Wild and Precious Life here.

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Jonathan is also on Substack and Twitter.

His latest book The Moves that Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life is out now.

I mention a bunch of previous wild episodes that you might like to listen to:

Sensemaking with David Fuller, Indigenous Knowledge Systems with Tyson Yankaporta and the Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor episode.

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