I'm a self absorbed person. And m so the question, am i acting or am i being real? Right? That's the question of authenticity and im i think that i actually would tend to think that fiction helps,. Even when you're not reading it, it sort of helps with that. There's this thing that happens in life where you end up playing yourself. Like everybody knows who so and so is like, and it's like they kind of know it too, and they're playing the part of themselves. I take it in authenticity to be the worries about authenticity to be a form of self absorption. So that's why it speaks to me, because i'm a selfabsor
Where do our deepest personal values come from? Can we choose those values? Philosopher and author Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago talks about her book, Aspiration, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Callard explores the challenge of aspiration--who we are versus who we would like to become. How does aspiration work? How can we transform ourselves when we cannot know how it will feel to be transformed? Callard discusses these questions and more in this provocative episode.