Welcome to How To Be a Better Human
How to Be a Better Human
TED
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🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Most of us want to be better, but we’re not sure where to begin. Well, start here. Each week, host Chris Duffy talks to guests and past speakers who offer actionable insights on How To Be a Better Human.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Let's be real here. |
| 0:08.0 | A lot of us are trying to be better people and we are a little stuck. We don't know how to be better. We don't know how to improve. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, I'm Chris Duffy and I am the host of Ted's new podcast How to Be a Better Human. |
| 0:20.0 | Every week I'm going to be in conversation with guests and past speakers and smart people from all over the world who are going to offer actionable insights on how to be a little less terrible as partners, listeners, allies, activists, and all the other ways that we're human. |
| 0:33.0 | Maybe you're trying to get it together for yourself. |
| 0:35.0 | It's a great question to really put yourself in the driver's seat to say, |
| 0:40.0 | is this helping or harming me in my quest to get through this? |
| 0:44.6 | Or for society. |
| 0:45.8 | Connection happens by sharing an experience or by connecting verbally through conversation |
| 0:51.3 | and to connect through conversation, you have to be able to |
| 0:53.8 | share your hopes your dreams your emotions you have to be open you have to get the other person to |
| 0:58.0 | be open or perhaps even the world I think it's really about just modeling your values in your day-to-day actions. |
| 1:04.0 | You don't have to be an advocate to change the way a person sees the world or somebody else. |
| 1:10.0 | Most of us want to be better, but we're just not sure where to begin. |
| 1:13.8 | Well, let's start right here. |
| 1:15.7 | Because it's not just about being a good person. |
| 1:18.2 | It's about learning how to be a better human. |
| 1:35.0 | Coming January 11th, wherever you listen to podcasts. PRX. |
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