Living Your Questions: A Pathway Through the Unanswerable with Krista Tippett
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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(Conversation recorded on May 16th, 2024)
Show Summary:
At the intersection between science and spirituality lies some of the most profound questions we can ask ourselves about the future - the answers to which could mean the difference between humanity's mere survival or a flourishing.
Today's episode with Peabody-award winning broadcaster Krista Tippett is an exploration into what it means to be human in our modern world and engage as individuals in the inner work required to create outward transformation.
What does it mean to ask questions that include the layer of a "Deep How", and how can we learn to hold, love, and live into the questions themselves when their answers may not exist yet? How could 'moral imagination', intentional conversation, and slowing down the pace of change lead to a longer lasting, sustainable evolution in human society? What would it take for us to finally grow up as a species and step up to face some of the most existential challenges in the history of our existence?
About Krista Tippett:
Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. She created and hosts On Being, which has won the highest honors in broadcast, Internet and podcasting. Her newsletter, The Pause, and On Being Project are evolving to meet the callings of the post-2020 world — and to accompany the generative people and possibilities within this tender, tumultuous time to be alive. Her most recent book is Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.
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| 0:00.0 | We are called by the magnitude, the existential magnitude of the challenges before us, |
| 0:06.5 | to really expand our imaginations and the analysis we apply when we ask a question like, |
| 0:14.4 | what is the impact here? What matters? What you and I are talking about here doesn't lend itself to measuring in terms of something |
| 0:23.5 | so reductive as a number or monetary value. Whether we just develop the capacity and the vocabulary |
| 0:34.0 | and the stamina and the ways of speaking together to ask those questions and then |
| 0:41.6 | live by the answers that they yield. It's the difference between merely surviving or the |
| 0:48.2 | possibility of a flourishing. You're listening to the Great Simplification. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm Nate Higgins. |
| 0:57.3 | On this show, we describe how energy, the economy, the environment, and human behavior all fit |
| 1:03.0 | together and what it might mean for our future. |
| 1:06.4 | By sharing insights from global thinkers, we hope to inform and inspire more humans to play |
| 1:12.2 | emergent roles in the coming great simplification. |
| 1:20.0 | Joining me today is Krista Tippett, the host of On Being podcast. |
| 1:27.8 | Krista is also a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, a National Humanity Medalist, and a New |
| 1:33.3 | York Times best-selling author. |
| 1:36.4 | Emerging from all that in 2003, she piloted her idea for On Being with the National Public Radio |
| 1:41.8 | to fill the gap she saw for intelligent public conversation about the religious, spiritual, and moral aspects of modern human life. |
| 1:50.7 | Later in 2013, she and her team turned on being into an independent nonprofit production. |
| 1:58.7 | Chris is currently at work on a new book about moral imagination and the human challenges |
| 2:03.1 | and promises of the 21st century. |
| 2:07.0 | I've talked about how true change for the great simplification must come from an |
| 2:11.5 | intershift in values. |
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