Special Edition: Making Resolutions Fun - How to Be a Better Human in 2025
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The new year is often a time when people think about what they want to improve about themselves — in other words, how to be a better human.
So today, we're talking to the host of the podcast with that exact name.
Chris Duffy interviews experts on a wide range of topics, getting their best strategies for improving the lives of ordinary people. We're having a light-hearted discussion about what it means to be a "better human," how to make New Year's resolutions in a way that will take the pressure off (so maybe they'll actually stick), and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, January 4th. The new year is often a time when people think about what they want to improve about themselves, or in other words, how to be a better human. |
| 0:09.6 | So today, we're talking to the host of the podcast with that exact name. |
| 0:13.5 | Chris Duffy is a comedian, television writer, and the host of the TED podcast, How to Be a Better Human. |
| 0:19.0 | He interviews experts on a wide range of topics getting their best strategies for improving |
| 0:23.5 | the lives of regular people. |
| 0:25.5 | And he makes it fun and funny along the way. |
| 0:28.4 | So today, we're having a lighthearted but still very helpful, in my opinion, discussion |
| 0:32.3 | about what it means to be a better human, how to make New Year's resolutions in a way |
| 0:36.9 | that will take the pressure |
| 0:37.8 | off, so maybe they'll actually stick. And so much more. Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy |
| 0:44.9 | special edition Saturday when we sit down with a different expert or celebrity every Saturday |
| 0:48.9 | to talk about something in the news. Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our |
| 0:53.1 | regular episodes where we provide all the day's news in 10 minutes. I'm Erica to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes, where we provide |
| 0:54.8 | all the day's news in 10 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy. It's now time for today's special edition Saturday. |
| 1:02.6 | Chris Duffy, thanks so much for joining us here on The Newsworthy. Thanks so much for having me. I'm |
| 1:06.3 | really excited to be here. So I want to start with your podcast title, How to Be a Better Human. What does that |
| 1:13.2 | mean to you? Why is that the title? I'll tell you right away that when they asked me to host a podcast |
| 1:18.2 | called How to Be a Better Human, I was like, you have, I think you have the wrong email. I think you've |
| 1:22.9 | perhaps reached out to the wrong Chris Duffy. It is an intimidating title. And I always feel like I have to give a disclaimer when I tell people that I host a show called How to Be a Better Human, which is that I do not know how to be a better human. And I do not think that I am a better human. It is the people that we interview who know that. The actual origin is that Ted had kind of a written vertical on their website |
| 1:46.0 | where there were articles that were coming in the How to Be a Better Human. The idea was, |
| 1:50.6 | here are these big ideas from these geniuses that give Ted talks. How would a regular person put |
| 1:55.6 | them into place in their life? I like the better part, which is not how to be the best or how to |
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