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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Michael Scott, Leslie Knope, Detective Jake Peralta–television producer and writer Michael Schur has created some of TV’s most beloved sitcom characters on shows like The Office, Parks and Recreation, and The Good Place. Still, his shows and his philosophy are not just about laughs. Today on The TED Interview, another podcast in the TED Audio Collective, Michael Schur sits down with host Steven Johnson. They dive into the craft of writing the TV comedy, why he is obsessed with philosophy and ethics, and what he’s learned from both the fictional and the real workplace about how humans behave, grow, and love. Michael’s New York Times-bestselling book “How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question” is out now.

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0:45.4	Hey everyone, it's Adam.
0:47.4	I'm excited to share something different today.
0:49.4	It's an episode from another Ted Audio Collective podcast.
0:52.4	The Ted interview hosted by the great Stephen Johnson.
0:55.4	If you do not know Stephen Johnson's work, you are doing yourself a disservice.
1:00.4	He is probably best known for the brilliant video he did on where good ideas come from.
1:06.4	He is a remarkably gifted science writer.
1:09.4	He has made me rethink whether we should be sending signals out into outer space
1:14.4	and whether we should all be galactic introverts instead of extroverts.
1:18.4	He's talked at length about the importance of the groundbreaking work we've done in the last century
1:25.4	to literally give humanity an extra life and written an outstanding book and also delivered one of my favorite Ted Talks on that very topic.
1:33.4	On the longevity project and how we got to where we are and how we could live for another hundred years.
1:38.4	So I could wax poetic for ages about how much I admire Stephen's work.
1:42.4	But I thought we could try something different and just say, Stephen, are you with us?
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