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Their wordsSo the most important things to emphasize in education are things like emotional intelligence and mental stability, because the one thing that they will need for sure is the ability to reinvent themselves repeatedly throughout their lives.
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Identities should now be built like tents that can be folded and moved, not like stone houses
Their wordsif traditionally people built identities like stone houses with very deep foundations, now it makes more sense to build identities like tents that you can fold and move elsewhere.
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Replacing human drivers with self-driving cars would probably save a million lives every year
Their wordsIf we can replace humans with self-driving cars, it's not that we'll have no car accidents. That's impossible. But we'll probably save a million lives every year.
Their wordsI tend to separate religions from spirituality. Spirituality is about questions. Religion is about answers.
Their wordsNow we live in a very unique time in history when engineers must tackle spiritual questions.
Their wordsThe key is to remember that we created them to serve us, and not that we are here in order to serve them. The trouble really begins when people lose sight of the simple reality that we are real, they are not.
Their wordsAnd on the collective level, I think the solution to this problem would be to change the model of the news market to high-quality news that costs you a lot of money, but don't abuse your attention.
Their wordsThe three biggest problems that everybody on the planet is now facing are nuclear war, climate change, and technological disruption.
Their wordsAnd again, it goes back also to the question about getting to know yourself, which I think is the key to developing compassion.
Their wordsAnd the other thing is that at least the meditation that I practice, which is with passive meditation, it's all about really knowing the difference between the fictions and stories generated by our mind and the reality.
Their wordsIf you see just one possibility, you're not looking wide enough. If you see two or three, it's probably also not wide enough. You need a map of, like, four or five different possibilities, minimum.
Their wordsSo if you want to instigate genocide, you start by hacking the disgust mechanisms in the human brain.