passion

also referred to as: passions

4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 11, 2018 by William MacAskill · across every show →

Everything said about passion, oldest first

Jul 11, 2018 positive
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MacAskill: Passion stems from mastering a subject rather than preceding it
“Passion tends to result from mastery of a subject or mastery of an area rather than vice versa.”
William MacAskill Jul 11, 2018 ▶ 18:31 #36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good
Dec 10, 2019 neutral
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Perel: Marriage was historically an economic enterprise separate from passion
“We've never looked for, you know, the word passionate marriage is a contradiction in terms. We've never looked for passion in the same place where we looked for security and anchoring and somebody with whom to pay the checks and fix the house. These two things…”
Esther Perel Dec 10, 2019 ▶ 58:20 #71 Esther Perel: Cultivating Desire
Dec 10, 2019 neutral
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Perel: Trading passion for relationship stability trades one fiction for another
“If you trade passion for stability, you basically trade one fiction for another. Both are products of our imagination”
Esther Perel Dec 10, 2019 ▶ 14:40 #71 Esther Perel: Cultivating Desire
Jan 11, 2022
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Holiday: Passions like anger and fear cause most historical mistakes
“At the root of most mistakes, both personally and sort of historically it's one of the passions, right? Envy, lust, anger, fear you know, pain you know, the, those sort of emotional states that take us out of the rational part of ourselves and into some sort o…”
Ryan Holiday Jan 11, 2022 ▶ 49:33 #128 Ryan Holiday: A Stoic Life
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