Ari Wallach

No, they're still with us. They're still with me. But look, even when you get into their – look, you asked one of the ways – how do you build transgenerational empathy with the past? Read people's biographies, especially autobiographies. And you see they had it really tough and they're not as perfect and as saintly as we think they are.

So the biographies give you, or you read their letters to their lovers or to their partners, and you're like, God, that person's kind of an asshole, right? But at the end of the day, if we as a society want to find ourselves where more of us than less of us are at this heightened sense of kind of intellectual and spiritual and emotional activation, that's not going to happen overnight.

So the biographies give you, or you read their letters to their lovers or to their partners, and you're like, God, that person's kind of an asshole, right? But at the end of the day, if we as a society want to find ourselves where more of us than less of us are at this heightened sense of kind of intellectual and spiritual and emotional activation, that's not going to happen overnight.

So the biographies give you, or you read their letters to their lovers or to their partners, and you're like, God, that person's kind of an asshole, right? But at the end of the day, if we as a society want to find ourselves where more of us than less of us are at this heightened sense of kind of intellectual and spiritual and emotional activation, that's not going to happen overnight.

But if we say that's the goal that we want, we want to see, people will argue, 9 billion, 7 billion, 3 billion, whatever the population of Homo sapiens is on planet Earth over the next several centuries or millennia. We want to see them flourishing in a way that's beyond what science fiction has ever even showed us.

But if we say that's the goal that we want, we want to see, people will argue, 9 billion, 7 billion, 3 billion, whatever the population of Homo sapiens is on planet Earth over the next several centuries or millennia. We want to see them flourishing in a way that's beyond what science fiction has ever even showed us.

But if we say that's the goal that we want, we want to see, people will argue, 9 billion, 7 billion, 3 billion, whatever the population of Homo sapiens is on planet Earth over the next several centuries or millennia. We want to see them flourishing in a way that's beyond what science fiction has ever even showed us.

If we make that decision that your life, what Andrew Huberman is doing is to work, what Ari Walker is contributing to that, that gives you a sense of purpose that I think religion used to give us that we are now sorely lacking in a social media world of instant buying of crap that we don't need on the internet.

If we make that decision that your life, what Andrew Huberman is doing is to work, what Ari Walker is contributing to that, that gives you a sense of purpose that I think religion used to give us that we are now sorely lacking in a social media world of instant buying of crap that we don't need on the internet.

If we make that decision that your life, what Andrew Huberman is doing is to work, what Ari Walker is contributing to that, that gives you a sense of purpose that I think religion used to give us that we are now sorely lacking in a social media world of instant buying of crap that we don't need on the internet.

It's not about balance, it's about harmony. How are we in harmony with the future? That is what I'm advocating for.

It's not about balance, it's about harmony. How are we in harmony with the future? That is what I'm advocating for.

It's not about balance, it's about harmony. How are we in harmony with the future? That is what I'm advocating for.

Look, I think it's the fracturing of the institutions that have been with us for the past several hundred years that is leading to an exponential rise in short-term behavior.

Look, I think it's the fracturing of the institutions that have been with us for the past several hundred years that is leading to an exponential rise in short-term behavior.

Look, I think it's the fracturing of the institutions that have been with us for the past several hundred years that is leading to an exponential rise in short-term behavior.

we got really good in academia, at least on the social sciences side, of saying what was wrong with the systems, but not about what the systems we wanted them to be.

we got really good in academia, at least on the social sciences side, of saying what was wrong with the systems, but not about what the systems we wanted them to be.

we got really good in academia, at least on the social sciences side, of saying what was wrong with the systems, but not about what the systems we wanted them to be.

Because going back several hundred years ago, coming through the Enlightenment, especially, well, Renaissance into the Enlightenment, the Enlightenment gave us back this idea of a new metanarrative based on rationality and logos and the ability to kind of understand the world by breaking it down into its component parts, that science.