[CLIP] How to Recover From the Crisis of Meaning in the West: John Vervaeke

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"Have you ever noticed that if your friend is doing something sort-of foolish, you can be so wise - you can say, 'Hey...you're doing that thing you do. And you're making that mistake...' But when it’s you that's making the mistake, it's so hard for you to see your bias, right? So, when you're outside someone's perspective, it's very easy to see the way that perspective is biasing them. But when you're within a perspective, it's very hard to see it. So, here's the thing. You are actually my best chance of me correcting my biases, and I am your best chance for you correcting your biases. And what we have to both do is commit: we're going to trust each other, we're going to entrust ourselves to each other, and we're going to commit to a shared process. Instead of 'I'm right, you're wrong,' it's like, ‘I want to get closer to the truth, and so I'm going to pay very careful attention to you on the understanding that you are probably seeing mistakes in my thinking that I can't see. And all I ask from you is that you do the same for me.' And then together, what happens is we enter into this mutually reinforcing, opening up, self-correcting. We move together. We don't necessarily have to come into agreement, but we can both get to a place closer to the truth than we could get to on our own." John Vervaeke