Steven Johnson wants to know how enlightenment happens

The TED Interview

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Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It’s official, the TED Interview has a new host! In Chris’s last episode as head of the show, he interviews his successor, bestselling science and technology author Steven Johnson. Two self-described intellectual soulmates, Chris and Steven take a deep dive in discussing where ideas come from, how optimism benefits creative ideation, the complex and even controversial process of discovery, and the beauty of what they call the “adjacent possible.”

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0:00.0	Have you listened to Talk Radio recently?
0:03.0	Let's talk about this war on white people.
0:05.0	That's a pro-quiling, it's good for you.
0:07.0	Bill the Keystone pipeline, deport illegals, build the wall.
0:10.0	I'm Katie Thornton, host of the divided dial,
0:13.0	a new five-part series from WNMC's On the Media,
0:17.0	about how the American right came to dominate Talk Radio
0:21.0	and how one company is launching a conservative media empire
0:25.0	from the airwaves.
0:26.0	Listen every Tuesday and on the media feed.
0:30.0	Every leader wants their employees to live and work happily ever after.
0:34.0	Thankfully you don't need a magic wand or a fairy godmother
0:37.0	to make that dream come true.
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0:42.0	give you the tools you need to support and celebrate all your people.
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0:48.0	Visit UKG.com slash Y-UKG to learn more.
1:18.0	I'm going to show you a little bit of the information
1:21.0	with Steven Johnson, who is the incoming host of the Ted interview.
1:26.0	I think what's going to happen to this show is it is about to get more interesting.
1:32.0	He's an intellectual soulmate who's actually done years and years of historical research
1:38.0	in two thousands of different amazing things in a way that I have never had time to do.
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