David Marchese

Are there any ways in which you feel like the spiritual tradition in which you were training is in tension with the life that you're living now?

Is there any part of you that thinks maybe that's an elaborate self-justification?

I think, you know, the think like a monk, live like a monk distinction is sort of related to what I was asking about earlier, which is how usefully we can decouple sort of religious belief from religiously inspired action.

Yeah.

I know I keep asking you like, where is the line here?

But I'm interested in trying to understand where these boundaries are.

But is there a point at which thinking like a monk, if you're not also living like a monk, stops being monk-like thinking?

Do you know what I'm saying?

Maybe that was my version of like a Zen riddle.

How much can you think like a monk if you're not really trying to live like a monk?

That's what the question is.

I'd like to ask a little bit more about your specific content now.

When I watch your material, and mostly I watch it, there are some guests like, for example, an Adam Grant, who is, I believe he teaches maybe at the Wharton School or something like that.

Yes, that's right.

Yes, yes.

Highly credentialed psychologist.

And then you also have on folks like

You know, John Edward, the psychic medium, whose, you know, let's just say his credentials are maybe more up in the air.

Do you think about sort of what responsibility you have as far as the credibility of a given guest?

Does skepticism fit into what you do at all?