essays, concerning human understanding

How to Change Your Life, Solved

SOLVED with Mark Manson, 3 June 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 12 min in.

The speaker describes John Locke's seventeenth-century argument, from this work, that humans are born tabula rasa—a blank slate—and that everything of who we are comes from environment and early experience. The mention frames blank-slate philosophy as the intellectual ancestor of certain social-science and political assumptions that the episode then goes on to challenge with heritability research.

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