The Humor of Being Human with Costica Bradatan

Fail Better with David Duchovny

Grace Cohen-Chen

Society & Culture

4.6 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The author of In Praise of Failure, Costica Bradatan, joins me from Romania to share his wisdom on all things lack and loss. We talk about the true meaning of humility, the benefits of clumsiness, and just how broken democracy is — and has been — across time and place. Plus, we discuss quite possibly the biggest failure of all, the one none of us can avoid: death. I got to indulge my latent philosophical bent in this conversation, meaning I could even comfortably confess that I tried to work an 1880 parable into The X Files. Follow me on Instagram at @davidduchovny. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. And if you want to continue the conversation with other listeners, join the My Lemonada community at https://lemonadamedia.com/mylemonada/ For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's morning in New York.
0:02.8	Oh, God.
0:06.2	Hey, everybody.
0:07.3	I'm Mandy Patinkin.
0:08.7	And I'm Catherine Grady.
0:09.8	And we have a new podcast.
0:11.7	It's called Don't Listen to Us.
0:14.1	Many of you've asked for our advice.
0:16.1	Tell me, what is wrong with you people?
0:19.2	Don't listen to us.
0:20.3	Our Take It or Leave a Adv Device show every Wednesday, out now.
0:24.7	A Lemonada Media Original.
0:36.2	I'm David Dukovny, and this is Fail Better, a show where failure, not success, shapes who we are.
0:43.6	Costa Broughtaton is an author and a professor.
0:46.9	He currently works as a professor of humanities at Texas Tech University and honorary research professor of philosophy at the University of Queensland in Australia.
0:55.7	He's also the philosophy and religion editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
1:00.1	You may have read his work in multiple places like The New York Times and The Economist,
1:04.0	where he's contributed pieces that are at the crossover of philosophy and pop culture.
1:08.9	Just where I like it.
1:10.2	He also published a book in
1:11.4	2023, a favorite of mine called In Praise of Failure, Four Lessons in Humility. Costica was
1:18.2	born in Romania and brings a unique perspective to all his work, especially when it
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