[Unedited] Nicholas Christakis with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Society, Spirituality, Society & Culture, Sociology, Culture, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Social Sciences, On Being, Arts

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Elemental human capacities like friendship and love, teaching and learning, have tremendous, constant, practical force. We don’t think of these in terms of what has given our species the grit to endure through hard times and even evolve in the long run. They’re lived social intelligence, part of the everyday, and so can be hard to see as serious amidst the high tumult of our age. But these kinds of human qualities are what sociologist Nicholas Christakis studies from his Human Nature Lab at Yale and his life generously lived. He offers a wide lens, a broad perspective, that deepens and refreshes.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.
0:07.5	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.2	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other,
0:15.7	and inspires us to take action for the common good.
0:18.8	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:23.6	I'm Christa Tippett, up next, my unedited conversation with sociologist Nicholas Christakis.
0:30.2	There is a shorter, produced version of this, as always, wherever you found this podcast.
0:36.1	Are we good?
0:37.5	Okay, all right.
0:39.1	Excellent. Are you a new Haven?
0:41.9	I am.
0:42.4	Okay.
0:44.1	Great. Well, I just want to plunge in.
0:47.1	I don't like to do too much speaking ahead of time.
0:52.2	I did.
0:54.2	Well, yeah, let's just start.
0:55.7	Then we'll talk.
0:56.7	I'm so glad that I saw your presentation at ON-Q, because that really helped me get into this.
1:03.2	Oh, well, I hadn't realized that's how we connected.
1:05.8	Well, yeah.
1:06.8	Well, remember I was there.
1:08.3	Yes.
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