What's worth doing? (and other essential questions)

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Kelly Corrigan Wonders “Life Worth Living” Book Club. This is the opening episode, where Kelly and the authors dig into the key questions driving this series: what’s worth doing, who are we responsible to, how should life feel, how should we deal with failures, and what can keep our values and our behavior aligned? Share this with the readers and thinkers in your life. The more people having this conversation, the better for all of us. Based on Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most from authors Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz. Visit lifeworthliving.com/kelly to access a study guide to help you work through the book. Special thanks to the Warren Smoot Carter III and Meagan Carter Charitable Fund. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about
0:09.1	what's worth wanting. We spend so much of our lives in pursuit. Sometimes our goals
0:15.6	are honorable and generative. Sometimes they're silly or self-serving. The trick is knowing
0:22.0	which is which and how to self-correct. So, with the guidance of three Yale professors,
0:29.1	we, at Kelly Corrigan Wonders, are launching our first book club, a five-part series based
0:34.4	on a book and a course called Life Worth Living, a guide to what matters most. Today's conversation
0:41.2	will kick things off with authors Mira Slav Wolf, Matthew Crosman, and Ryan McNally-Lins.
0:48.4	Join us as we do a deep dive into what matters most. We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:59.6	Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Today begins our first book club series,
1:11.9	five episodes back to back, working through a book called Life Worth Living, which is based
1:17.8	on a very popular class at Yale. The idea came to us about a year ago when I recorded a conversation
1:24.4	with a guy named Mira Slav Wolf. He immigrated here from Croatia. He is the founder and the director
1:30.8	of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, and the younger brother of a five-year-old who was killed
1:36.4	by a soldier, who his parents made a point of forgiving. In that unforgettable conversation,
1:43.9	he talked about a course he's been teaching since 2014 with two other Yale professors,
1:49.2	Matthew Crosman and Ryan McNally-Lins, called Life Worth Living. I leaned in, I said,
1:55.9	tell me more. He explained that the class is a semester-long look at the best thinking across time
2:01.8	and culture. On the biggest questions individuals put to themselves, what's worth doing? Who are we
2:09.2	beholden to? How can we marry our values to our behavior? What should life feel like?
2:15.6	I said, Mira Slav, when you get advanced copies, please send me one. He said he would,
2:22.0	and he did. I found the book grounding and challenging. It gave me a focal point for all my
2:28.0	wondering, and it seemed like the perfect guide for a larger discussion. So here we are.
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