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🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative |
0:07.0 | and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with creative |
0:11.9 | friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe. |
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0:27.0 | This is open to debate. I'm John Don Van. Hi everybody. If you are a regular |
0:35.4 | follower of our program you know that we are big champions of argument. That might |
0:40.6 | sound odd given the polarization going on in the world today, but we really believe that |
0:45.2 | engaging with people you disagree with helps not only to explore interesting and important questions, |
0:51.2 | but it also reminds us that it is okay to disagree that we can actually learn |
0:55.9 | from one another provided that our arguments are made in good faith and that the people |
1:00.1 | having the argument in fact truly listen to each other not to agree necessarily that's not the point |
1:06.3 | but to really understand what the other person is saying and why to really hear each other, to see each other. |
1:14.0 | So now along comes a writer who has debated with us on multiple occasions |
1:18.0 | and he's just published a book titled |
1:20.0 | How to Know a Person, The Art of seeing others deeply and being deeply seen. |
1:25.0 | And we saw that and we said that's our theme in the subtitle, so we have to have |
1:29.8 | him on. |
1:30.8 | I'm betting that you have heard of this writer David Brooks an opinion columnist for the New York Times |
1:34.1 | a commentator on the PBS news hour and his book which I have read sets out to explore how |
1:39.9 | we do this how do we see each other better, hear each other better? So in this |
1:44.2 | episode we are talking to David Brooks to learn what he has learned. David, thank you |
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