Becoming Wise

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March 31, 2016 [Unedited] Tiffany Shlain with Krista Tippett
Tiffany Shlain is the founder of the Webby Awards and a co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. She has directed and co-written 28 films, some with accompanying books, including “The Science of Character,” “Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks,” and the feature-length documentary “Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology.” This interview is produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Tiffany Shlain — Growing Up the Internet.” Find more at onbeing.org.
1 hr 30 min
March 24, 2016 Nathan Schneider — The Wisdom of Millennials
There’s a kind of brilliance that flashes up in early adulthood: an ability to see the world whole. Nathan Schneider has been able to articulate and sustain that far-seeing eye of young adulthood. He’s also a gifted writer, chronicling the world he and his compatriots are helping to make — spiritual, technological, and communal. At the Chautauqua Institution, we explore the wisdom of a millennial generation public intellectual on the emerging fabric of human identity.
51 min
March 24, 2016 [Unedited] Nathan Schneider with Krista Tippett
Nathan Schneider is a scholar-in-residence of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of “God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet” and “Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.” He is a regular columnist for Vice magazine and America, the national Catholic weekly. He is currently co-editing a book on democratic business models for online platforms. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Nathan Schneider — The Wisdom of Millennials.” Find more at onbeing.org.
1 hr 16 min
March 18, 2016 Beauty Is an Edge of Becoming | John O'Donohue
“Beauty isn’t all about just niceness, loveliness. Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming.” Beloved Irish poet John O’Donohue on beauty’s true grit, and finding it in the transformational edges of our daily lives. Find more at onbeing.org/becoming-wise.
7 min
March 18, 2016 Courage Is Born from Struggle | Brené Brown
“Hope is a function of struggle.” Brené Brown, a researcher and scholar, on the value and power of adversity to give rise to the astonishing strength of which we are all capable.
9 min
March 18, 2016 Mapping Meaning in a Digital Age | Maria Popova
“Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. But hope without critical thinking is naïveté. I try to live in this space between the two.” The creator and editor of Brain Pickings on the pratfalls and promise of knowledge-sharing in the digital age. Find more at onbeing.org/becoming-wise.
11 min
March 10, 2016 Lawrence Kushner — Kabbalah and the Inner Life of God
The Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah is a rich, magnetic world of thought and teaching. It has resonance with modern understandings of reality — and describes a cosmic significance to the practical moral call to “tikkun olam,” “repair the world.” Rabbi Lawrence Kushner is a long-time student and articulator of the mysteries and messages of Kabbalah. We speak with him in honor of the 20th-century historian Gershom Scholem, who resurrected this tradition from obscurity and made it accessible to modern people.
51 min
March 10, 2016 [Unedited] Lawrence Kushner with Krista Tippett
Lawrence Kushner is a scholar-in-residence at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. His many books include “God Was In This Place & I, i Did Not Know,” “Kabbalah: A Love Story,” and “I’m God, You’re Not.” This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Lawrence Kushner — Kabbalah and the Inner Life of God.” Find more at onbeing.org.
1 hr 27 min
February 04, 2016 Jean Berko Gleason — Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life
Jean Berko Gleason is a living legend in the field of psycholinguistics — how language emerges, and what it tells us about how we think and who we are. She has helped to illustrate the remarkable ordinary human capacity to begin to speak, and she’s continued to break new ground in exploring what this may teach us about adults as about the children we’re raising. We keep learning about the human gift, as she puts it, to be conscious of ourselves and to comment on that. For her, the exploration of language is a frontier every bit as important and thrilling as exploring outer space or the deep sea.
51 min
February 04, 2016 [Unedited] Jean Berko Gleason with Krista Tippett
Jean Berko Gleason is Professor Emerita of psychology at Boston University. This interview was edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Jean Berko Gleason — Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life.” Find more at onbeing.org.
1 hr 25 min

About Becoming Wise

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The Becoming Wise podcast offers depth and discovery in the time it takes to make a cup of tea. Each episode is curated from hundreds of big conversations with wise and graceful lives. Reset your day.…