Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
Origins are conversations with thought-leaders across an eclectic mix of disciplines (science, engineering, art, and design), crafted specifically for the category-defying society that we live in. We explore the thoughts, passions, and stories that defined these pioneers’ fascinating trajectories, arriving at the origins of the pivotal moments across their lives. Draw inspiration for your own trajectory from the intellectual and spiritual electricity of these eclectic conversations.
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
The Great Askers (episode 1): Sara Hendren and Krista Tippett
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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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)