You Don't Know All the Moves Is a Really Important Rule for Life

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The idea that you can somehow figure out what you need to do to get the rest of your life on this golden brick road is just a fundamental misunderstanding of what life's about. When I'm 17 I know so little not just about how to get from A to B that's hopeless already, he says. The most transformative experiences growing up it's getting older it's learning about things you didn't know about and that's the worst sort of way scientific left brain tendencies push us.

Philosopher and author L.A. Paul talks about her book Transformative Experience with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Paul explores the uncertainties that surround the transformative experiences that we choose and that happen to us without choosing. How should we think about the morality and personal impact of these kinds of experiences, especially when some decisions are very hard or impossible to reverse? Examples include becoming a vampire, having children, religion, and other life experiences and choices.