Jeremy Sherman PhD has been on many of the rides in life’s amusement park. For example, in his 20’s he was an engineer getting water to poor Guatemalan villages and was also an elected elder in the world’s largest hippy commune. During a juicy midlife crisis, he pivoted to academic research on the questions that were eating at him. He now calls himself a cradle-to-grave researcher, collaborating with a Berkeley neuroscientist on everything from the chemical origins of life to the nature of assholes and cults today. Sherman is the author of a Columbia University Press book about life’s origins but also 1000 articles for Psychology Today about everyday doubts and decision making.
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Commit yourself to fallibilist irony, the adaptive response to a wiggly world.
2. Watch out for “I once was lost but now I’m blind” syndrome.
3. Don’t panic, it’s organic. If you understand how we got here life gets more interesting and you get more comfortable in your own skin.
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