THE INTELLECTUAL CEILING - S04E40

Mind Shift with Erwin & Aaron McManus

Erwin McManus + Aaron McManus

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Erwin and Aaron McManus are back together again after Erwin returns home from attending TEDMonterey 2021: The Case for Optimism, a massive conference of innovative thinkers and creators in the areas of technology, entertainment, and design.

Erwin and Aaron discuss the idea that optimism is the proposition that all evils are due to lack of knowledge, a mental framework Erwin vehemently rebukes. They discuss the real root of optimism and hope in people’s lives: is it the intellectual ceiling, or the human dilemma?

The duo ultimately bring it back to two questions: how can humanity make the world better, and how can we as humans get better ourselves?

Don’t miss this discussion of ideas that have stymied the world’s best thinkers, and get ready to have your own thinking challenged and elevated. —

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Aaron McManus, and you were listening to The Battle Ready Park.
0:13.6	I'm here with my dad, Merwin.
0:15.7	It's so good to be here with you today, buddy.
0:17.5	And you were at a special place this week. You were at TED.
0:21.7	I was up in Monterey for a few days. The TED conference has been a few years since I've been,
0:26.5	but I was really excited to be back.
0:29.0	And to talk to us a little bit about TED and what it is, most of you know TED talks.
0:36.3	Yeah, of course, TED stands for technology entertainment design, of course.
0:42.0	I've been probably to about 20 different TED conferences, both in the US and across the world.
0:47.3	So over the last 15 years, right?
0:49.1	Yeah, maybe 20.
0:50.2	And before they were releasing the talks.
0:52.0	Right, right.
0:52.9	In Monterey before, it went public and before it started traveling.
0:56.0	And so I was one of the TEDsters.
1:00.6	And frankly, I think the first five years that I went, it was life changing for me,
1:05.9	and really invigorating.
1:08.1	And I would always feel as if I gained so much, so many insights, so much inspiration.
1:17.1	And so I was always a huge advocate for it.
1:19.7	Yeah. And it was that I was strange that a lot of Christians that didn't feel like TED was
1:25.8	a good place. I'm like, wow, this is crazy.
1:28.0	This is this is the cutting edge of innovation, thought, design, imagination.
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