The Great Askers (episode 1): Sara Hendren and Krista Tippett
- Author
- Ryan McGranaghan
- Published
- Tue 30 Jan 2024
- Episode Link
- None
Flourishing Commons Newsletter and the post introducing Great Asking
Show Notes:
- Sara Hendren's Origins Conversation
- start of a living conversation (05:20)
- Ignorance by Stuart Firestein (06:00)
- questions are the oxygen of imagination (08:00)
- curiosity is a moral muscle (10:10)
- The Division of Cognitive Laborby Philip Kitcher (09:20)
- Sara's substack (10:40)
- Howard Gardner (11:20)
- Participatory readiness Danielle Allen (16:40)
- Living the Questions with Krista (23:30)
- questions and a state of receptivity (30:20)
- Sara's blog on voice memos (37:00)
- vagus nerve (37:00)
- neuroplasticity (37:30)
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (45:00)
- The Virtues of Limits by David McPherson (53:30)
- the healing is in the return - Sharon Salzberg (55:00)
- Proust Questionnaire
- Lightning Round (57:30):
- Overrated virtue: (Krista) independence; (Sara) fortitude as opposed to true courage
- Words or phrases to retire: (Krista) losing generative to AI; (Sara) community
- Valuing in friends: (Krista) laughter; (Sara) longevity
- Lowest depth of misery: (Krista) when imagination shuts down; (Sara) tyranny of inwardness and the lie of aloneness (St. Augustine)
- Find Sara and Krista online:
Logo artwork by Cristina Gonzalez
Music by Agasthya Pradhan Shenoy (Swelo)
