The Examined Life
The Examined Life podcast explores the questions we should be asking ourselves with a range of leading thinkers. Each episode features a different interview, and appeals to those interested in wisdom, personal development, and what it might mean to live a good life. Topics vary from discussing the role of dopamine mining and status anxiety, to exploring the science of awe and attention.
Podcasting since 2023 • 21 episodes
The Examined Life
Latest Episodes
Michaeleen Doucleff - what are the universals of childhood?
What if the Western approach to parenting is based on spurious cultural assumptions, not human nature? In this episode, science writer Michaeleen Doucleff takes us inside indigenous communities around the world to reveal what Western parenting ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:05:24
Season II summary: it's all about attention
In this summary episode, we take the theme of attention which runs through most of conversations in the second season. In the episode you'll hear fragments of conversation from Iain McGilchrist, Dacher Keltner, Dougald Hine, Phoebe Tickell, Ale...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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27:50
Oliver Burkeman - How can I more fully embrace my finitude?
This is a distilled version of last year's conversation with the writer Oliver Burkeman. In it, you'll hear Oliver talk about our troubled relationship with time and how to mor...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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20:45
Phoebe Tickell - Is the root of our problems found in the way we see the world?
Phoebe Tickell is a biologist, systems thinker, and 'imagination activist'. Phoebe works across multiple contexts applying a complexity and systems thinking lens and engaging people in how to think differently about the planet and its problems....
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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55:37
Alex Evans - What do we do about the religion shaped hole?
What do we lack when we lack religion? In this episode Alex Evans explores the role that religion has historically played in both collective and individual life, and the shape it leaves behind when it disappears. The stories that we locate ours...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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53:14
