The Most Important Question

GOOD NEWS: How to Be A Better Ancestor


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To continue our Good News series, we’re looking back to Episode 78, when Quinn & Brian discussed: Planning for chaos. (Cheery, right?)

For real, though. This episode offers an actionable, helpful, revealing, and — dare we say it? — PLEASURABLE way of looking at the world. And that perspective comes from the delightful Bina Venkataraman, author of The Optimist's Telescope and the Editor of The Boston Globe’s editorial page.

Fair warning, so you don’t get upset like Brian did: this is not a real telescope. But you should still be excited, like Brian is now, because Bina is awesome and her book is fantastic — and it’s more applicable now than ever.

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INI Book Club: 

  • “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss
  • INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club

Links:

  • Read: "The Optimist's Telescope"
  • Twitter: @binajv
  • Watch Bina’s TEDTalk: "The power to think ahead in a reckless age"

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  • Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com
  • Artwork by Amrit Pal

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