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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Thinking Globally - Fareed Zakaria and Alan Alda

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Fareed Zakaria, the noted journalist, broadcaster, and author, talked with Alan Alda on this episode of Clear+Vivid back in February, before the coronavirus consumed not only our lives and livelihoods, but also any other topic of conversation. But what’s fascinating is how much Fareed's thoughts on the importance of a fulfilled life – an examined life – resonates with us now, when we are all trying to cope with a world in which everything is so uncertain.  Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Alan Alder and this is Clear In Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.

0:15.7

These are the things that make us human.

0:17.9

Asking ourselves, who am I?

0:19.3

What does this mean?

0:20.5

What really makes me happy?

0:22.3

And if you ask those questions, grapple with them.

0:25.0

I think that more often than not, you end up leading a more fulfilled life because you

0:29.1

realize that some of the things that superficially seem important, money or job or things like

0:34.6

that up to a point they are, but there are other things that are more important and you

0:38.7

can only find that out if you engage in this process of examining life, of examining

0:45.0

what it means.

0:46.2

What does it mean to be human?

0:48.9

For each Zakaria and I sat down for this conversation back in early February.

0:54.0

That was before the coronavirus snatched up so many lives and livelihoods.

0:59.7

It was also before the virus invaded every conversation, so it might be a relief from our daily

1:05.5

diet of tragic updates to listen to something different.

1:09.4

But it's interesting how much for each thoughts about the importance of a fulfilled life

1:13.8

and examined life, how much that resonates now, now while we're all trying to cope with

1:18.6

the world in which everything is uncertain.

1:22.6

Every, this is so great that you could come in today.

1:24.8

I'm such an admirer of yours.

1:26.8

And I have yours, so this is a great pleasure.

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