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#359 — Getting Used to It

Sam Harris speaks with Cass Sunstein about habituation and its consequences. They discuss habituation to positive and negative experiences, marriage, happiness, meaning, variety, doing good vs feeling good, midlife crises, kids, wealth and happiness, things vs experience, the “illusory truth effect,” misinformation and social media, echo chambers and extremism, what governments can do to respond to misinformation, free speech on college campuses, the 2024 Presidential election, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe. Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

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  #364 — Facts & Values

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  #363 — Knowledge Work

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  #362 — Six Months of War

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  #361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism

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  #360 — We Really Don’t Have Free Will?

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  #358 — The War in Ukraine

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  #357 — America & World Order

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  #356 — Islam & Freedom

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  #355 — A Falling World

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  #354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy?

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  #353 — Race & Reason

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  #352 — Hubris & Chaos

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  #351 — 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza

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  #350 — Sharing Reality

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  #349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good