When you're hiring staffers or hiring in other capacities, such as the university, obviously we look for people who are smart. But fundamentally, what I want is people who want to be a part of a cause that's bigger than themselves. And they want to do something that matters. They're sort of always asking that deathbed like question. If I get the cancer diagnosis at 50, or in my old age at 85, when I look back in my life, well, I think I spent my 30th year well."
The US senator and former college president joined Tyler for a conversation on adolescence, adulthood, driving for Uber, loving Luther, hate-reading Rousseau, the decline of small towns, backpacking across Europe, America’s peculiar fondness for age-segregation, and why his latest book contains so little sex.
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Recorded June 14th, 2017
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