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What is freedom?

The simplest definition is something like the absence of limits.

Freedom means more options, fewer obligations, no walls, no constraints.

It's the ability to keep every door open for as long as possible.

And on some level, that makes sense. Nobody wants to feel trapped. Nobody wants to be

restrained by arbitrary boundaries or somebody else's idea of how a life should go. But there's

another side to this. Too many choices can also become a burden.

Too much openness can make it harder to commit,

harder to create, even harder to know what you want in the first place.

So how do we tell the difference between the limits that oppress us and the limits that free us.

I'm Sean Elling, and this is the gray area.

Today's guest is David Epstein, a journalist and the author of Range, and now, inside the Box, how constraints make us better.

Epstein's argument is that we have badly misunderstood the relationship between freedom and structure.

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