PLAY PODCASTS
Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy

Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy

TED Education

October 25, 201313m 10s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (dl.iono.fm) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

What is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its “loneliness, longevity, grim thrill” -- that is, says Parul Sehgal, except for fiction. In an eloquent meditation she scours pages from literature to show how jealousy is not so different from a quest for knowledge. A video of this talk