Shankar Vedantam: Useful Delusions

[@placetasvcable]

The level of eloquence of Shankar is unfair to the rest of us humans :)

[@anastasiahopkinson5676]

Dr Keltner's questions are lengthy, pedantic, monologues of his own mythologies

[@lotusstar347]

After forty-three years of working with diverse populations of high schoolers from coast-to-coast, the most powerful tool in creative writing is one called Council Way, a knock-off of a Native American process of circle sitting and passing a "talking piece." What I soon came to realize was that if a kid could create a story of all the random and, too many times, horrific events that he or she had endured, they could, with the help of classmates really listening deeply, from the heart, make some kind of sense of all the chaos. So many kids came back to tell me how this narrative making had healed them in some significant way. It didn't matter so much what the facts were. If they could "tell their story" and have it reflected back from classmates, they could find their way. We had so many transcendent experiences together and even the most callused, cynical kid wearing an ankle bracelet, tear-up and say, "If I'd had a dad like yours, I wouldn't be wearing this." And, the other kid he said it to say, "Come on over, man. I can share him for sure. You can help us with the reroofing."

[@jamesvasconi6054]

“[O]ur canonical story about honesty in the United States is itself based on a lie.” Pretty much sums up a LOT of things.

[@lotusstar347]

Compared to what country? Let us lean into our beautiful illusions so as to created a more perfect union.

[@joptionaljohnson6302]

Perfect timing. Thank you. Listened to podcast all night last night. Hidden Brain (brilliant) 24:00 Coincidence just reaffirms the reality of faith. Another words. God is very real.

[@binkding]

36:00 if parents did not have this insane delusional love for their children, parenting is incredibly hard to do it's time consuming it's expensive it's difficult it's annoying it's frustrating. you lack sleep if you didn't have this insane delusional love for this for this other creature . you know if you're just doing a cost-benefit analysis on a day-to-day basis you're out we'll be out of there and for me let's realize this. and so nature has endowed us with a delusion which in some ways is deeply functional

[@mhsidibe1]

Please do an audio book version of this book

[@sharanyachaitanya3103]

Very good thought.