#99 Following Your Intuition, Diverse Communities & Human Nature with Rutger Bregman

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🗓️ 18 April 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Hey Podulters! In this week’s episode I speak to Rutger Bregman, he is a historian, author and speaker. I’m sure if you listen to the podcast regularly you will have heard me mention his book, Utopia For Realists, multiple times. Unlike pretty much anyone else I have spoken to, Rutger said he was pretty happy with everything he had learnt in school 🤣 but that’s mostly because he doesn’t really think our schools are fit for purpose as they are. We discuss following your intuition, the importance of diverse communities and why humans are actually really kind, deep down. I really enjoyed recording this episode and I hope you enjoy listening, Rutger’s latest book, Humankind, covers a lot of what we talk about in the episode! As always please do rate, review and subscribe 💜

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0:00.0	Hey, Polly Tears, I hope you're well. In this week's episode, I speak to Rutger Braggman.
0:05.1	He is a historian and author, and I'm sure if you listen to this podcast regularly,
0:09.3	you will have heard me mention his book Utopia for Realist multiple times. So it really was very
0:14.0	exciting to be at the chance to pick his brain. And I might pretty much anyone else have interviewed.
0:18.8	Rutger said he was pretty happy with everything he'd learned in school, but that's mostly because
0:23.6	he doesn't really think our schools are fit for purpose as they are, and that's something that we
0:27.4	discuss in this episode. He did send me over his three things, which were French, German,
0:33.1	bits of mindfulness, and most importantly, more freedom to follow his own curiosity and rely on
0:37.9	a trans-Zeg motivation. So we discuss that quite a lot, as well as the importance of diverse
0:43.0	communities and why humans are actually really kind, deep down. If you're interested in that kind
0:48.6	of thing, his latest book, Humankind, actually covers a lot of what we talk about, obviously,
0:51.9	in much more depth. So if you're looking to learn more, then I would really recommend that. Yeah,
0:57.6	I really enjoyed this episode, so I hope that you enjoy listening to it as well. Bye!
1:06.8	Hello and welcome to Ableton. Today I'm joined by Rutger Breckman.
1:12.0	Hey there, where'd you be with you? Thank you so much for joining me. I'm very excited to
1:15.9	be talking to you. I don't know, you probably might not have listened to my podcast, but I read
1:20.3	your book Utopia for Realists right at the beginning of this year. And I think every episode since then
1:26.5	I've brought it up. So when I emailed you. Really? Really? I really had such a big impact on me,
1:32.7	so when I emailed you and you emailed me back in like 20 minutes, I'm like, sure, I'd love to do
1:36.1	this. Oh, I've never been so excited. So thank you so much. So it's not out of date yet. You
1:41.4	feel it's still relevant because it's actually quite an old book. You know, I wrote it in
1:46.1	2014 in Dutch and it was translated in English in 2017, but I'm very excited to hear that it's
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