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10 Things to Learn: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Soul explores what it means to remain fully human in an age increasingly defined by technology, optimization, and artificial intelligence. While modern civilization has expanded humanity’s power and capability, it has done little to eliminate suffering, grief, fear, or the search for meaning. This book argues that life’s deepest questions cannot be answered through efficiency or control. Instead, genuine growth emerges through a series of essential initiations—moments of collapse, surrender, loss, rest, and devotion that shape the soul. Blending mythology, philosophy, memoir, and poetic reflection, it offers a timeless framework for navigating the emotional and spiritual disorientation of modern life.

Structured around ten symbolic “gates,” the book reframes life as a cyclical journey of awakening rather than a linear pursuit of success. These gates—Falling, Surrendering, Crying, Caring, Hating, Creating, Sharing, Loving, Breathing, and Laughing—each represent a threshold of psychological and spiritual transformation. Drawing from Greek mythology, Biblical narratives, Eastern philosophy, and archetypal storytelling, the book presents a unified map of human development. Its voice combines lyrical prose with intellectual rigor, placing it at the intersection of Joseph Campbell’s mythological insight, Alan Watts’s spiritual inquiry, and the literary introspection of Hermann Hesse.

At a time of accelerating technological change, rising anxiety, and the erosion of traditional sources of meaning, 10 Things to Learn offers something increasingly rare: not just insight, but initiation. It speaks to readers seeking coherence in a fragmented world and restores a sense of purpose through the defining ordeals of the human experience.
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(00:00) The Gaza Concentration Camp

(11:37) The Military and Intel Operations Focused on Destroying Gaza

(14:05) Evidence of Israel's Genocide in Gaza

(27:58) The Attacks Against Anyone Who Criticizes Israel

(1:11:34) Why They Kicked Finkelstein Out of Hunter College

Norman Finkelstein received his doctorate from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His books have been translated into some sixty foreign editions. They include The Holocaust Industry, What Gandhi Says, and I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It. A 2020 study ranked Finkelstein the fifth most influential political scientist in the world.

Norman Finkelstein’s new book is Gaza’s Gravediggers: https://orbooks.com/catalog/gazas-gravediggers

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Nate Soares is a computer scientist who’s worked at Google and the Defense Department. So when he says AI is on the path to killing every person on earth, it’s worth hearing him out.

(00:00) Why Is AI Dangerous?

(17:43) The Unpredictable Evolution of AI

(20:13) The US and China’s Shared Interest in AI

(37:20) The Tech Oligarchs More Powerful Than the Government

(1:20:51) Can We Survive This?

Nate Soares is President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), where he has led AI safety research for more than a decade following engineering roles at Google and Microsoft. He is the co-author, alongside Eliezer Yudkowsky, of the New York Times bestselling book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (2025), which argues that the current race to develop super intelligent AI will end catastrophically unless humanity globally coordinates to stop it.

Nate has published extensively on AI alignment, including foundational work on decision theory, goal specification, and the incentives that drive advanced AI systems to seek power in ways their creators neither anticipate nor intend.

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Republicans are going to lose in November because Trump chose a foreign country over his own voters. Here’s how deep the betrayal is.

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A special edition of The Megyn Kelly Show, featuring Dr. Andrew Huberman, author of “Protocols.” Topics include the importance of getting bright light in the morning and darkness at night for improving sleep, a surprising technique for falling back asleep, finding balance with health and wellness, the truth about nicotine and caffeine, and more.

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