Making Sense with Sam Harris · 2026-07-01 · 23 min · 3,934 words

#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into

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Alan. Thanks for joining me. Thank you so much for having me. So I think this this conversation probably is uh I don't know, two decades coming. I feel like I've I've known about you for at least

Twenty years. And uh admired your work from afar. Uh, you've done many things, you've written many books and you have The school of life. Uh, which I would love to talk about. But uh h how do you describe your career at this point?

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