Wisdom In Hindsight

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Life is full of moments that shape us — and if we're lucky, we might pick up some wisdom along the way. In host Guy Raz's final episode, TED speakers share some of the life lessons they've learned. Guests include writer Pico Iyer, financial literacy advocate Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll, and neuroscientist Indre Viskontas.

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0:29.8	your local station. And thanks. This is the Ted Radio Hour. Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:41.2	Ted Talks. Ted. Ted. Technology. Entertainment. Design. Design. Is that really what's
0:46.7	10 for? I've never known the delivered at Ted conferences around the world. It's the gift of
0:50.8	the human imagination. We've had to believe in impossible things. The true nature of reality
0:56.3	backends from just beyond those talks, those ideas adapted for radio, from NPR.
1:10.1	I'm Guy Ross. Oh, I'm so happy to hear your voice again, Guy. I was just saying I've missed you.
1:14.9	I have to see you at the last. This is the writer, Pico Eyre. I think you're probably now,
1:20.4	this is the third time you're going to be on the show, I think. I think so. Yes, really glad I can
1:24.8	be part one again. Pico is known for his travel writing, and for part of the year, he lives in
1:30.5	Kyoto. I'm actually technically, I'm in suburban Nara, so 20 miles from Kyoto. And yes, for really
1:38.6	the last 27 years, I've been spending the majority of my time in this little rented two room
1:44.8	apartment in Nara, Japan. And it's just a place that you kind of fell in love with and that you,
1:51.6	I don't know, just spoke to you, I guess. Just spoke to me. My first day in Japan, I was just on an
1:57.5	unwanted layover flying back from Hong Kong to New York City, where I was living in 1983.
2:04.7	And in the course of that layover, I just walked around the airport turn of Nari-toe, near Tokyo.
2:10.4	And at the end of my three hour walk, I had decided to move to Japan. I felt at home there that
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