The Great Askers (episode 1): Sara Hendren and Krista Tippett

Origins Podcast Website

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:
  • Sara
  • Krista

Logo artwork by Cristina Gonzalez

Music by Agasthya Pradhan Shenoy (Swelo)