The Negative Effects of Perspective on the World

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

In her school, we were not allowed to take science. It was supposed to keep you in the upper class. And also women often didn't get exposure to science, as I understand it. Our last year of being allowed to takescience was eighth grade. So all the boys were taking it at the younger age and then the girls are beyond from it? Yes, and I was the star math student until we merged with the boys school in 10th grade. And I ended up with, after being put down by them, I have enormous math for you. And it's never gone away, even through business school. This also relates to this topic we were talking about before of the world

Read the full transcript here.

What is positive psychology? What is the PERMA model? From a creativity standpoint, is there a connection between music and writing? In various artistic fields, how hard is it to be creative without first achieving some level of technical mastery? How can one hone the skill of creativity? How useful is optimism for achieving happiness? What are the different sources from which humans derive pleasure? To what extent is western culture conscious of ageism? What does positive psychology have to say about interpersonal relationships? What is the value and purpose of extended education generally and degrees specifically? What is wisdom?

Georgia Shreve is a composer, fiction writer, playwright, and poet. She holds degrees from Stanford, Brown, Columbia, and PENN. Her poetry and fiction have been published in magazines such as the New Yorker, New Republic, and New Criterion, and her short story, "The Countess of M-", won the Stanford Magazine Fiction award.

Staff