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🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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On today’s episode of Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, Sharon talks with Yale professors and two of the authors behind Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most. Initially a class in Yale’s humanities program, Life Worth Living sought to find answers to the age-old philosophical question: what’s the meaning of life? The book brings the classroom lessons to a new audience, and Sharon talks to Volf and McAnnally-Linz about how to go beyond TikTok and Cheetos and find true fulfillment.
Special thanks to our guests, Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, for joining us today. Find Life Worth Living here.
Hosted by: Sharon McMahon
Guests: Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome. So glad you're joining me today. I am chatting today with Mirislov |
| 0:11.1 | Wolf and Ryan McNally-Lins who are two of the three co-authors of a new book that I think |
| 0:17.2 | is going to really make you think. It's called Life Worth Living, a guide to what matters |
| 0:24.8 | most. And I loved that this book feels kind of like a college philosophy class. Instead |
| 0:34.5 | of telling you what to think, it helps you learn how to think. And I'm all about that. So let's |
| 0:42.0 | dive in. I'm Sharon McMan and here's where it gets interesting. Gentlemen, thank you so much |
| 0:50.7 | for joining me. I'm really excited to be chatting today. It's a pleasure to be with you. |
| 0:54.1 | Great to be with you. I read with interest your new book that you worked on together. You also |
| 0:59.9 | have another co-author. But one of the things that I was really interested in from the very beginning |
| 1:05.9 | when I cracked the book open, which by the way the book is called Life Worth Living, |
| 1:11.3 | one of the things that I was like, oh well, let's see if that's true. You have one of the sections |
| 1:17.6 | at the very beginning that basically says, this book might wreck your life. And when I opened it, |
| 1:25.0 | I was like, do I want that? Do I want that? Oh, that may be a two. Maybe I do. And I think you |
| 1:34.7 | will lay out in the book why that might be true and why that might actually be a good thing. |
| 1:39.4 | But Ryan, I'll start with you. Why do you feel like the audience might experience this book |
| 1:45.0 | wrecking their life? Well, all of us have these tracks that we run on in our day to day life. |
| 1:51.0 | And we've got ways of doing things that maybe we chose them a long time ago. Maybe they were |
| 1:57.0 | really intentional. But for the most part, and this is okay, this is kind of how human life works, |
| 2:03.0 | you've got to most of the time just get by by doing what you do because that's what you do. |
| 2:07.8 | The thing is that can lead us into places of kind of momentum that have us going in a direction |
| 2:13.3 | that from the inside feels all right to us. But if we were to stop and think about it, |
| 2:17.9 | we might realize that it needs to be totally upended. And so from the perspective of cruising along |
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