Three Skills for Staying Calm, Sane, and Open in a Chaotic World | Krista Tippett

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<p><em>New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.</em></p> <p>---</p> <p>The host of On Being shares lessons learned from 20 years of interviews, including: how to live with open questions, counterprogramming against your negativity bias, and getting over the God question.</p> <p><br /></p> <p><a href="https://onbeing.org/our-story/krista-tippett/" rel= "noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Krista Tippett</a> is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, a National Humanities Medalist, and a New York Times bestselling author. She grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, attended Brown University, and became a journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin. After studying theology at Yale Divinity School in the early 1990s, Tippett launched <em>Speaking of Faith</em> — later <a href= "https://onbeing.org/series/podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>On Being</em></a> — as a weekly national public radio show in 2003. She has published three books: <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/10066/9781101980316" rel= "noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living</em></a>; <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/10066/9780143116776" rel= "noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Einstein's God</em></a>, drawn from her interviews at the intersection of science, medicine, and spiritual inquiry; and <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/10066/9780143113188" rel= "noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Speaking of Faith</em></a>, a memoir of religion in our time.</p> <p><br /></p> <p><strong>In this episode we talk about:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Getting over the God question when it comes to contemplating religion</li> <li>Why Western culture has such a dearth of ways to talk about love</li> <li>Why she thinks the core of relationships is not about agreeing but about navigating differences</li> <li>Tuning into our generative agency</li> <li>Her definition of a wise life as distinct from a knowledgeable or accomplished on</li> <li>Why she believes it is as important to know what you love as it is to know what you hate</li> <li>Learning to love big open questions instead of rushing to answers</li> <li>Why the things we get paid to do may not define whether we're living a worthy life </li> <li>And getting our intentions straight and then trying not to tie them too tightly to our goals</li> </ul> <p><br /></p> <p><strong>Other Resources Mentioned:</strong></p> <p><a href= "https://www.ted.com/talks/krista_tippett_3_practices_for_a_life_of_wisdom?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Krista Tippett's TED Talk: 3 practices for a life of wisdom</a></p> <p><br /></p> <p><strong>Full Shownotes:</strong> <a href= "https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/" rel= "noopener noreferrer" target= "_blank">https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/krista-tippett</a></p>