Knowledge: Does It Make Sense To Be Knowledgeable On Every Issue?
The Kevin Miller Podcast
Kevin Miller
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to what drives you. I'm Kevin Miller and in this episode, Knowledge. |
| 0:05.0 | Does it make sense to be knowledgeable on every issue? |
| 0:08.0 | So as a guy who has focused too much of my life on doing and producing. I'm acutely aware that everything I say yes to, |
| 0:17.0 | everything I give attention to has a cost. Something else doesn't get done. Something else doesn't get attention. There's only so much time |
| 0:24.8 | in a day and so much space in my brain. So in my recent show with Stephen T. |
| 0:30.5 | Collis, law professor at the University of Texas Austin, and one of the nation's leading |
| 0:36.3 | thought leaders on the First Amendment and civil discourse, he hits on this issue in the first chapter of his book, |
| 0:43.7 | which is called Habits of a Peacemaker, |
| 0:45.3 | 10 habits to change our potentially toxic conversations |
| 0:49.0 | into healthy dialogues. |
| 0:50.4 | And Habit One in his book, it's called intellectual humility and reframing. |
| 0:55.8 | And the first sentence of the first chapter says, |
| 0:58.4 | most of us need to recognize that most of the time we don't know what we're talking about. I'm giving focus to all the issues |
| 1:05.9 | in our culture and we talked about this on the show we did together. |
| 1:09.2 | You know all the front page headlines and stories, all the social media media topics all the current political issues |
| 1:14.2 | how on earth are we expected to be on top of them all and know enough to have this |
| 1:20.0 | staunch opinion and stance. Let's look at giving ourselves permission to not |
| 1:26.0 | know so much about everything. Hey friends when I'm not having these |
| 1:30.9 | conversations about our human potential, I'm working |
| 1:34.0 | directly with people on their human potential, on integrating the wisdom that we hear from |
| 1:39.4 | our world's greatest influencers here on the show. |
| 1:41.9 | If you feel you aren't meeting your full |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kevin Miller, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Kevin Miller and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

