This chapter explores the importance of embracing uncertainty and asking big open questions rather than rushing to find answers. It emphasizes the need to live with the questions and let them teach us, highlighting the tendency to waste time and come up with ineffective solutions when we rush to take action without fully understanding the gravity of the questions at hand.
From Krista: I loved being interviewed by Dan Harris as much as I've ever enjoyed being on the other side of the microphone (as the saying goes). He drew things out of me I didn't know I had to say. And I'm so impressed with him as a human being, and what he's created with Ten Percent Happier. I hope you might enjoy this!
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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.
In this episode we talk about:
- Getting over the God question when it comes to contemplating religion
- Why Western culture has such a dearth of ways to talk about love
- Why she thinks the core of relationships is not about agreeing but about navigating differences
- Tuning in to our generative agency
- Her definition of a wise life as distinct from a knowledgeable or accomplished one
- Why she believes it is as important to know what you love as it is to know what you hate
- Learning to love big open questions instead of rushing to answers
- Why the things we get paid to do may not define whether we're living a worthy life
- And getting our intentions straight and then trying not to tie them too tightly to our goals