How to really see patience as a virtue
How to Be a Better Human
TED
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Over the course of the podcast, our guests have shared insights for how anyone can be a better human-- in love, in the workplace, in our communities, and beyond. But, how are these experts trying to be better humans in their own lives? Today’s episode is an anthology on this season’s most popular answer: by being more patient. Listen as sleep scientist Wendy Troxel, Hollywood executive Franklin Leonard, psychologist Guy Winch, and more share the rich and surprising benefits of practicing this age-old virtue. To learn more about "How to Be a Better Human," host Chris Duffy, or find footnotes and additional resources, please visit: go.ted.com/betterhuman
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Chris Duffy, |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Chris Duffy, and you're listening to how to be a better human. |
| 0:15.0 | So at the end of every interview that I do for this show, |
| 0:18.0 | I always ask our guest how they personally are trying to be a better human. |
| 0:23.0 | And I have to say, it is probably my favorite part of getting to do this job |
| 0:27.0 | that I get to ask them that question. |
| 0:29.0 | It's such an honor and a joy to get to talk to these incredible geniuses about their advice and their insights into what you and I should do to be better humans every day. |
| 0:37.5 | That's incredible. |
| 0:38.5 | But it's also really kind of amazing to get to hear firsthand how they themselves are still working on this. |
| 0:46.0 | That it's a process and that they're not like up on some pedestal high above us looking down |
| 0:50.5 | from their state of perfection. I really, really love that. Because to be honest, my biggest |
| 0:56.5 | fear when Ted asked me to host a podcast called How to Be a Better Human was that people would somehow |
| 1:01.6 | think that I thought that I had the answers to that question. |
| 1:04.6 | How do you be a better human? |
| 1:06.4 | Because I really don't. |
| 1:08.0 | I mean I want to be a better human, but I certainly am no expert. |
| 1:12.2 | And it has been an immense relief and honestly eye-opening to me |
| 1:16.8 | to see that even the experts who we do have on the show, |
| 1:20.1 | that they don't have all the answers either. |
| 1:22.3 | But they do always remind me that working on yourself |
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