Ashlyn Harris
speaker
188 appearances
15 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Ashlyn Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I don't think this is something that you can legislate. So I wouldn't want to force it, but it would be like a strong suggestion, which is around kindness, which is that... Maybe I'll use this phrase from the Dalai Lama that I like better than kindness, because kindness can sound very bland. Wise selfishness. That's...
if you want to do selfishness correctly, you will be thinking about the benefit of all beings to the best of your ability. Because that is how you will get happier. And if we lived our lives, all of us, with that as a North Star, which again, I don't know if I could make it a law, but I could make it a strongly held policy. I think that would change a lot. I think that would change.
I'm not a utopian. I don't believe that we can create a perfect world, but I think that we can create a much better world if we play to people's self-interest in a way that really is in their self-interest instead of the fleeting dopamine hits that we're selling people on now, that actually your abiding happiness is going to be found in And I wish there was a less cheesy way to say that.
More than a sentence.
Right, just to go into a flow.
It's so interesting to meet you because, I mean, this is a long way of saying thank you. It's just so interesting to meet you because I've seen you from afar for a million years. And then just to like... walk into this hotel room, you're like this dude who just shows up, they're like, hey, how you doing? Like you're way more casual and down to earth than I might've expected.
And so it's really fun to like put an actual person to the name.
That's usually when you, when I, I, you, I meet a, I've met a lot of well-known people in my job, um, as a journalist, cause I have my job to interview them. And, uh, it's rare that I like people more after meeting them based on their public persona. And so that's what I was trying to say.
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