'What Self-Interest Is' by Tara Smith

Self-Interest -- part 1: What Self-Interest Is

In this lecture, Tara Smith defines what self-interest is. She also examines common attitudes to self-interest and self-interest’s ultimate goal: happiness.

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[topol]

Tara is awesome. Clarified a lot for me.

[kalidesu]

Happiness isn't passive. Total agreement.

[chrisknorr]

I think the first questioner conflated big/little achievements or tasks with more/less important values. One can advance the most important of values through the simplest of actions. Life (our highest value) can be promoted by eating a meal, or honesty by saying a sentence that is true. Or conversely, less fundamentally important or optional values can be promoted through long-range, difficult tasks like strength training, or learning to play an instrument. OR, of course, any other combination of the above... big tasks can promote important values and simple actions can promote less important values.

[homoliber]

"There are no facts, only interpretations." Interpretations of WHAT?

[TrueDetective]

First you should know"Self" it's not the body but the soul inside- read The science of self realization" by prabhupada pre 1977 version.

[jamescain]

25 minutes in a whole bunch of nothing. Spends more time talking about alturism. I came to learn about self interest. Like going to a lecture on judasim and learning instead about hinduism. Im going to persist but its against my self interest.

[sidd-artha]

This is a sermon closely following the Christian model. It goes like Slogan, Statement, Statement, cute quote from a literary work, generalization, and again Slogan, Statement...

The word reason is quite often said, yet no trace of reason, just keyword dropping to the choir. A wasted hour waiting for some reasoning.