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118. Understanding Each Other with Parker J. Palmer (Part 1)
The Greg McKeown Podcast
The Cost of the Unexamined Life Is to Individuals and to Institutions
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Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. And we've got millions and millions of people walking around with unexamined lives because there aren't any portunities to examine them in the way we're talking about. So i came up with palmer's first amendment to socrates s dictum - please do not take a job that involves other peopleha,. Like it because, as we were touching on earlier, gregg, my capacity to understand another person begins with mycapacity to understand myself. If i haven't worked away at that inward journey of self understanding, how in heaven's name can i possibly discern anything deep and true and real about another human being
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