What's Next? Our Future Stories with David Christian

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

What does the future hold? And how do we make sure we're making the best decisions for ourselves? In today's episode with David Christian, you will discover answers to these questions and much more!

"What are the skills involved in trying to think about the future? To construct future stories that are closer to the truth than other future stories? Because if we don't do that. We die." - David Christian

David Christian is a distinguished Professor of History at Macquarie University and Director of the school's Big History Institute. David co-founded the Big History Project with Bill Gates and has delivered keynotes at conferences around the world, including the Davos Economic Forum. His Ted Talk has been viewed millions of times and he is the author of many books and articles.

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Also From the Interview with David Christian...

His book, Future Stories: What's Next
The questions leading him to write about the future
How we are always thinking about and telling ourselves stories about the future
Thinking about the philosophy and science of time
The two metaphors of time being like a river and a map
How time is an important concept for complex entities
Punctuated equilibrium refers to trends from the past to predict changes in the future
How time is experienced in 3 ways: natural, psychological, and social time
The best predictions of the future depend on finding the most powerful trends of the past
The four possible scenarios for the future of humanity

David Christian links:

David's Website

Twitter

Ted Talk

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Big History of Everything with David Christian (2019)

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0:00.0	Before we start, I want to give a big shout out to our newest Patreon members,
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0:32.6	Stan M. and Kathy S. Thanks so much to all of you and thanks so much to all of our other Patreon
0:39.3	members. If you'd like to experience being a Patreon member and all the benefits that come with it,
0:44.6	go to 1ufeed.net slash join. What are the skills involved in trying to think about the future,
0:53.5	to construct future stories that are closer to the truth than other future stories? Because we don't
1:00.4	do that, we die. Welcome to the 1ufeed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized
1:14.4	the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,
1:21.1	ring true. And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward
1:27.3	negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think
1:34.7	things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
1:41.2	It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is
1:47.1	about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.
1:58.8	Hi, it's Bethany Frankel. My time on the Real Housewives of New York is a few years behind me.
2:11.2	And now I'm ready to put the real back into the Real Housewives. That's where my new podcast
2:16.2	Rewives comes in. This isn't your typical rewatch podcast. I'm bringing on unexpected thought
2:21.3	leaders and celebrities to give their take on the chaos. In my first episode, I dig into the scary
2:26.5	island, Roni episode with Elizabeth Moss. It's one of my favorite shows I've ever done so don't miss it.
2:32.9	Listen to Rewives with Bethany Frankel on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts for wherever you get your
2:38.5	favorite podcasts. Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is a return guest, David Christian.
2:46.4	He's a distinguished professor of history at McCory University and director of the schools
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