Podcasts that mention 📚 The Worm at the Core by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski

uh his whole idea is that ernest becker i think i i find this idea really compelling is uh that everything human beings have created like our whole motivation in life is to uh create like escape death is to try to uh construct an illusion of um that we're somehow immortal It's like everything around us this room your startup your dreams all everything you do is a kind of um creation of a brain unlike any other mammal or species is able to be cognizant of the fact that it ends for us i think so you know there's there's the question of like the meaning of life that you know you look at like what drives us uh humans and when i read ernest becker that i highly recommend people read is the first time i this scene it felt like this is the right thing at the core uh sheldon's work is called warm at the core

Lex mentions Sheldon's work, referring to a book related to Ernest Becker's ideas and terror management theory.

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the following is a conversation with sheldon solomon a social psychologist a philosopher co-developer of terror management theory and co-author of the warm at the core on the role of death and life

The introduction mentions Sheldon Solomon as a co-author of this book.

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and just uh uh and warm with the cores and there's another book talks about terror management theory sheldon solomon

The host mentions a book related to terror management theory and its author, Sheldon Solomon, likely referring to 'The Worm at the Core'.

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