Life Worth Living with Miroslav Volf

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Education, Careers, Self-improvement, Business

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🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean for a life to go well? What matters most in our time on Earth? These are the most important questions of our lives and yet most of us have no clue how to answer them. Miroslav Volf is a theologian and professor who has been grappling with these ideas for decades. He is the founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture where he teaches a class called “Life Worth Living,” and recently wrote a book by the same name. It turns out, life worth living is life helping others. This is…A Bit of Optimism. For more information on Miroslav and his work check out: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691260/life-worth-living-by-miroslav-volf-matthew-croasmun-and-ryan-mcannally-linz/ https://faith.yale.edu/people/miroslav-volf

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0:00.0	If there's one thing I really enjoy, it's talking about why we do what we do.
0:11.8	Why our lives matter.
0:13.7	That's why I wanted to talk to Miroslav Wolf.
0:16.4	He teaches a class at Yale called Life Worth Living.
0:21.1	And though he's written over 20 books, it's his most recent book, Life Worth Living,
0:26.7	a guy to what matters most that I wanted to talk to him about.
0:31.3	The founding director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture sat down with me to really get
0:36.2	into the thick of what it means to live a life worth living.
0:40.1	And the results are, well, worth it.
0:44.5	This is a bit of optimism.
0:50.4	You wrote a book and it's the title that I find absolutely arresting.
0:56.6	Which is Life Worth Living.
0:59.9	And the first question I have for you is, why did you call it Life Worth Living and not
1:06.7	a Life Worth Living?
1:08.8	Was it just a design decision or was there actually something philosophical behind it?
1:13.2	It's so curious.
1:14.2	That's a really great question.
1:16.4	I think there's a kind of philosophical intuition behind it.
1:20.8	If I understand correctly, English is not my first language.
1:24.8	And the creation, which is my mother's tongue, does not have definite, indefinite articles.
1:31.2	So I am not the best person to comment on the grammatical and philosophical...
1:37.1	It's a significant translation issue.
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