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Midweek Reset: Kieran Setiya on failure + process

Midweek Reset: Kieran Setiya on failure + process

Life Examined

May 8, 20243m 30s

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Show Notes

This week, Kieran Setyia, professor of philosophy at MIT and author of “Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way” reflects on failure and suggests we push back on how we frame our lives through successes and failures, winners and losers. Doing so, Setyia says, doesn’t make us succeed more but allows “failure to take a different shape and have less centrality” in how we value our lives. 



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