What Do You Hope Are the Main Takeaways From This Chat?

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This week's econ talk is a wrap-up of the discussion on education. Russ roberts asks each guest what they hope people take away from this episode. What do you ultimately hope are the main takeaways for someone listening to you here? i think we've had a very quixotic conversation, he says. It's easy to pick on the bad, depressing state of things and get overly pessimistic. There's great education out there,. But more than that, spend some time in yer inner life after college.

What do crossing rivers and investing in stocks have in common? Real education is seeing the connection between things that seem very different. EconTalk's host Russ Roberts talks about education with Alex Aragona of the podcast, The Curious Task. Roberts argues that the ability to apply insights from one area to another with which we're unfamiliar is one of the ways that real education differs from the mere accumulation of knowledge. And when we combine insights from two areas into something completely new, we can not only navigate rivers and stock markets, but also scale the heights of the human experience.