Three Skills for Staying Calm, Sane, and Open in a Chaotic World | Krista Tippett
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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The host of On Being shares lessons learned from 20 years of interviews, including: how to live with open questions, counterprogramming against your negativity bias, and getting over the God question.
Krista Tippett is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, a National Humanities Medalist, and a New York Times bestselling author. She grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, attended Brown University, and became a journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin. After studying theology at Yale Divinity School in the early 1990s, Tippett launched Speaking of Faith — later On Being — as a weekly national public radio show in 2003. She has published three books: Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living; Einstein's God, drawn from her interviews at the intersection of science, medicine, and spiritual inquiry; and Speaking of Faith, a memoir of religion in our time.
In this episode we talk about:
- Getting over the God question when it comes to contemplating religion
- Why Western culture has such a dearth of ways to talk about love
- Why she thinks the core of relationships is not about agreeing but about navigating differences
- Tuning into our generative agency
- Her definition of a wise life as distinct from a knowledgeable or accomplished on
- Why she believes it is as important to know what you love as it is to know what you hate
- Learning to love big open questions instead of rushing to answers
- Why the things we get paid to do may not define whether we're living a worthy life
- And getting our intentions straight and then trying not to tie them too tightly to our goals
Other Resources Mentioned:
Krista Tippett's TED Talk: 3 practices for a life of wisdom
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| 0:00.0 | It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm been noticing in a lot of my personal conversations recently |
| 0:24.4 | and maybe this is going to sound familiar to you. |
| 0:26.5 | I've been noticing that people seem to have a sense of impending doom, |
| 0:30.2 | a view that things have perhaps never been worse in human history |
| 0:34.4 | and there can be a real certainty to this view and immovability |
| 0:38.2 | and that dogmatism I have noticed extends to so many issues of the day as my friend Maria Popova has written |
| 0:46.0 | we are living through a pandemic of certainty. My guest today, Krista Tippett, is here to |
| 0:51.7 | gently counteract both the pessimism and the dogmatism. |
| 0:56.5 | To be clear, Krista is not Pollyanna if she absolutely sees the many challenges we face |
| 1:01.6 | as a species in this era of Polycrisis. |
| 1:04.4 | Instead, she argues, and I happen to agree with this, that there is more to the story than just |
| 1:09.2 | the gloom, and further, that when you focus on arriving at and defending your answers in the midst of all of this, |
| 1:17.2 | you can overlook the massive power of open questions. |
| 1:21.2 | Many of you will know Krista for roughly 20 years. She's been the host of On Being, which was a hugely |
| 1:26.4 | successful public radio program that she has now migrated over to being a seasonal podcast. |
| 1:33.4 | She's a Peabody Award winner, |
| 1:35.0 | a National Humanities Medal |
| 1:37.1 | and a best-selling author of several books, |
| 1:38.9 | including Becoming Wise, Einstein's God, |
| 1:41.8 | and Speaking of Faith, and she just dropped a new TED Talk which I had the |
| 1:46.1 | pleasure of seeing live and which you can watch by clicking the link in the |
| 1:50.1 | show notes that talk which is the basis for this interview centers on three |
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