Making Sense with Sam Harris · 2025-04-14 · 110 min · 20,987 words

#408 — Finding Equanimity in Chaos

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Sam Harris, welcome back to the show. Yeah, thank you. You've had a you've had a year so far. This month has been a year, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Well well let's start there's been a lot of shit that's happened with you this year. Let's just start with the fires. Can you just tell the basic story of what happened in your neighborhood? Yeah, well, we just we're, you know, we were part of the uh Palisades fire, not the

the real epicenter of it where and people have seen photos of just like Nagasaki level destruction, but on the periphery, but four houses burned very close to our house. So we're we're in a neighborhood that is remarkably untouched and life will be, uh in in fact, it has returned to normal there. for most people, but we're close enough to burned homes that we decided, you know, we're we're not we can't come back to our home yet and who knows when. I mean, it might be a a year. I mean, we we're just waiting for the cleanup.

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