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Bewildered

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan

Business, Education, Courses, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Our culture believes that the only way to fix all the bad stuff in the world is to stare at it relentlessly, as if our sheer focus could solve things. (Or at least prove we’re not part of the problem.) However, there are more effective ways to be the change, ways that include beauty and joy. On this episode of Bewildered, we’re talking about how we can actively change the world without being consumed by what’s wrong with it—and how creativity might be more revolutionary than resistance. Join us!

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0:00.0	Everything is bad.
0:02.0	That is literally true.
0:03.9	Here's the thing.
0:05.2	Our culture kind of believes that the only way to fix the bad stuff is to stare directly at it.
0:14.3	Relentlessly.
0:15.9	As if our sheer focus could solve it or at least prove we're not part of the problem, right?
0:22.3	Mm-hmm.
0:23.1	But we have a different take.
0:26.9	It might ruffle some feathers, though, but we do have a different take.
0:31.7	The system expects resistance.
0:35.2	It does not expect abandonment. Mm-ment. And we do believe in resistance as in activism.
0:43.9	Don't worry. That's part of the whole thing. But there are other ways to show up besides resistance,
0:52.3	ways that include beauty and joy and gladness.
0:57.1	Today, I'm bewildered.
0:59.3	We're talking about what it means to be the change without being consumed by what's wrong,
1:05.4	about how creativity might be more revolutionary than resistance,
1:09.7	about tending a garden as activism.
1:12.9	About otters, yes.
1:15.6	Always otters, yes.
1:16.7	A little bit about garlic, we'll be in there.
1:19.1	And about how I was out of the country.
1:22.2	No one can blame her.
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