What do our guests do to be better humans?

How to Be a Better Human

TED and PRX

Self-improvement, Education

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This show is all about growth – and it’s always inspiring to know that the amazing guests we bring on still see room in their own lives to become better humans. This season TED Audio Collective+ subscribers on Apple Podcasts received bonus content, where guests shared the ideas that inspire them and the issues they are passionate about working on. We picked our favorites as a thank you to all listeners – but if you WANT to support this show, you can learn more about TED Audio Collective+ at podcasts.apple.com/ted-audio-collective

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	I'm Chris Duffy and you're listening to how to be a better human.
0:12.0	One of my favorite parts of hosting this
0:14.4	show is that every time we do an interview I get to end that interview with the same
0:18.6	two questions. The first thing that I say is what is something that has helped you to be a better human?
0:25.2	And then I ask, what is something that you are working on right now in yourself to be a better human?
0:31.0	The answers are so fascinating, and at least to me the idea that these incredibly
0:35.4	talented accomplished very good humans we have as our guests still have no shortage of things to work on in themselves is a huge
0:42.4	relief. It's a reminder that
0:44.2	none of us ever gets to a place where we are just a good person. It is always a
0:48.7	process. It always involves learning and growing. And the suggestions that people give for things that have helped them in that journey
0:55.8	run the gambit.
0:56.7	I never know what a guest is going to say,
0:59.5	and I am frequently very
1:03.4	thing,
1:04.4	even though I ask those questions every interview, they often don't make it into the
1:08.3	episodes that we put out.
1:09.4	This season we've been experimenting with releasing some of them as
1:12.2	bonus content, but that means that they're
1:13.7	behind a paywall. And now that we're at the end of the season, I want to make sure that everyone gets to hear some of the best
1:18.9	bits. So today's episode is a compilation of the most interesting answers we got to those two questions.
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