Steven Pinker on the Pursuit of Rationality | Never Wish Away A Minute of Your Life
The Daily Stoic20 Okt 2021

Steven Pinker on the Pursuit of Rationality | Never Wish Away A Minute of Your Life

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to author Steven Pinker about his new book Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, the importance of pursuing effective altruism, the responsibility of institutions to protect the common good, and more.

Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a popular writer on language, mind, and human nature. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and his academic specializations are visual cognition and developmental linguistics. Pinker is also the author of eight books and was named in Time's "The 100 Most Influential People in the World Today" in 2004.

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