Book · 2012 · Terror
The Worm at the Core
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I think that's um and people should read warm at the core for some other descriptions you have a lot of different experiences of this nature.
Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020 Listen at 1:09:24 What they say about it
- Death at the core“death is at the core”2
The best things said about it
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.
Your view of the human condition is that death you've written the book warm with the core that death is at the core of our consciousness of everything of how we see the world of what drives us.
Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020 There's a there's a bunch of philosophers ernest becker and uh sheldon solomon they believe that death is the at the core of everything wrote this book warm at the core.
Joe Rogan Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2020 4 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
The Worm at the Core by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski explores terror management theory and the foundational role that the fear of death plays in driving human behavior and societal creation. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, Eugenia Kuyda recommended the book, noting that Ernest Becker's compelling idea highlighted in the work is how human motivations and cultural creations attempt to construct an illusion of immortality to escape the reality of death. Lex Fridman also recommended the title on his podcast for its descriptions of psychological experiments and discussed the premise with Sheldon Solomon, noting the view that death sits at the core of human consciousness and drives the way people see the world. Similarly, Joe Rogan discussed the book on the Lex Fridman Podcast, citing philosophers like Ernest Becker and Sheldon Solomon to explain how meditation on mortality underpins human activity. Dr. Clay Routledge referenced the authors and their work on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast during a discussion about Terror Management Theory experiments, while Lex Fridman mentioned the book in a separate episode with Sara Seager when discussing terror management theory and Sheldon Solomon's contributions.
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Lex Fridman i think that's um and people should read warm at the core for some other descriptions you have a lot of dif… 3
“your view of the human condition is that death you've written the book warm with the core that death is at the core of our consciousness of everything of how we see the world of what drives us”
“i think that's um and people should read warm at the core for some other descriptions you have a lot of different experiences of this nature”
“and just uh uh and warm with the cores and there's another book talks about terror management theory sheldon solomon”
Eugenia Kuyda uh his whole idea is that ernest becker i think i i find this idea really compelling is uh that everything… 1
“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”
Clay Routledge they wrote a book uh called the worm at the core the on the role of death in life that came up in 2015 i ha… 1
“they wrote a book uh called the worm at the core the on the role of death in life that came up in 2015 i haven't looked at that book i've talked to greenberg and and solomon about about their work before”
Joe Rogan there's a there's a bunch of philosophers ernest becker and uh sheldon solomon they believe that death is t… 1
“there's a there's a bunch of philosophers ernest becker and uh sheldon solomon they believe that death is the at the core of everything wrote this book warm at the core”
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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”
“you know we had just written our book – the worm at the core and he's like you know you you you're missing a big opportunity every time you say something you have to have your phone”
“and now let me leave you with some words from vladimir nabokov that sheldon uses in his book warm at the core the cradle rocks above and abyss and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness”