Our Stories: Are They Everything?

We structure our lives through our stories, but in what ways can they lead us astray? We’ll look at how story is important using some comments by YouTube filmmaker Casey Neistat. Then we’ll look at the story of the Buddha, and the stories many of us use to understand our pasts and futures. Check out…

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Neistat and Einstein on the Good Life

YouTuber Casey Neistat and physicist Albert Einstein had contrasting ideas of what might constitute the good life. We’ll look at both of them and compare them with some ideas from Aristotle and early Buddhism. To find the section of Casey’s video cited above, see HERE. For a nice discussion of Einstein’s approach to happiness, this…

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