302 - A More Beautiful Question - Warren Berger

You Are Not So Smart

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode we sit down with Warren Berger, the author of A More Beautiful Question – and a man who has made a career out of classifying, categorizing, and making sense of all the many varieties of questions we ask, when we are likely to ask them, and how that can lead to all manner of outcomes, some positive, some negative.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the U.S.
0:07.0	Welcome to the U.R. Happy, they went fire.
0:11.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcasts.
0:27.6	Episode 302.
0:29.9	302.
0:30.0	I'm going to be a bit of a bit of a My name is David McRaney.
0:47.2	This is the You Are Not So Smart podcast on this program.
0:50.6	We often explore intellectual humility, media literacy, and critical thinking. And
0:56.7	asking questions is a critical aspect of critical thinking. And this is an episode about
1:06.4	asking questions. So, I'd like to ask you a question. Why is the sky blue?
1:20.6	Do you know the answer to that question? Do you know why the sky is blue?
1:28.9	You may have learned the answer in school, and if so, I'm wondering right now,
1:33.8	how much of what you learned can you right now recite off of the top of your head?
1:40.8	In other words, and you don't have to share those with anyone. I'm not going
1:44.5	to tell anybody, but I'm wondering if honestly, when asked, why is the sky blue, is your internal
1:51.1	answer kind of, I don't know. It's totally okay. It's totally okay if that is your answer,
1:58.1	but I'm wondering if it is, how long have you persisted in this very
2:03.2	specific slice of ignorance? When is the last time you looked up the answer to why is the sky
2:10.1	blue, either to learn it for the first time or to refresh your memory? We were more than capable
2:17.0	than at any other time in history of answering questions like these.
2:22.3	There was a time when if you were hanging out with your friends and someone,
2:26.3	like they ordered like a bee's knees at the bar and someone said,
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