How ethics can help you make better decisions | Michael Schur

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🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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What would Immanuel Kant say about a fender bender? In a surprisingly funny trip through the teachings of some of history's great philosophers, TV writer and producer Michael Schur (from hit shows like "The Office" and "The Good Place") talks through how to confront life's moral dilemmas -- and shows how understanding ethical theories can help you make better, kinder decisions.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:07.2	We're about to take a little trip through the major philosophical frameworks that we
0:10.6	can rely on to make decisions.
0:12.6	But this is a humorous trip in the hands of today's speaker, the TV writer and producer
0:17.2	Michael Shore.
0:18.2	His talk from the Ted 2022 stage helps us all think through what to do when we confront
0:23.7	life's moral dilemmas.
0:25.6	Large and small.
0:27.0	Hey, I'm Stephen Johnson, host of the Ted interview podcast.
0:32.4	On this show, we talk to some of the world's most interesting people to dig into the provocative
0:37.5	and powerful ideas of our time.
0:40.1	On the latest episode, Dr. Chanda Prescott Weinstein talks about her quest to decode the
0:45.7	universe and her own search for meaning.
0:48.6	You can be pretty miserable as a scientist if you go into science only wanting to get
0:53.2	to the answers because most of your life is the process of getting there and sometimes
0:58.4	not getting there.
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1:08.6	Okay, every time you stay at an Airbnb, do you ever wonder could my place at home actually
1:14.7	be an Airbnb?
1:16.0	Could I rent it out?
1:17.0	And if I could, what would it earn?
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