#137 Life as Conversation - Russ Roberts on his relationship with his father, starting the EconTalk podcast in 2006, Adam Smith, why people want to be "lovely", aiming high, why it's hard to have fun, misunderstandings of the academic world, and moving to Israel in his 60's
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
The First Self-Help Thing I'd Ever Seen
"I was doing a bunch of things I had not imagined I'd be capable of," he says. "When it turns out, okay, you feel really good about yourself." The rewards are very different from what you've experienced before,. It's fun to do things that are hard and not fail. Of course, you do fail sometimes. That's interesting too".
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