How To Live An Intentional Life with Professor C Thi Nguyen #670
About this episode
The episode discusses how to live an intentional life by understanding personal values versus societal metrics of success.
We’re living in a world that has become extraordinarily skilled at measuring success. But most of us never stop to question which standards really matter to us. Are you chasing success by someone else's definition, without even knowing it? This episode will help you figure that out. My guest is C Thi Nguyen, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah and the author of The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game, one of the most thought-provoking books I’ve read. This conversation explores where our values really come from, what games and hobbies can teach us about living with freedom, and why so much of what matters most in life resists being measured at all. Thi has developed a fascinating framework for understanding one of the defining problems of modern life: what he calls ‘value capture’. It’s the process by which our own rich, personal values are replaced by simplified external metrics (think followers and likes, salaries, exam grades – even health metrics like your weight or blood pressure score). These metrics can never show the full picture of a human life – but they can end up running it. And once you understand this concept of value capture…
People in this episode
Host: Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Guest: C Thi Nguyen
Topics covered
- intentional living
- values
- success metrics
- philosophy
- value capture
- relationships
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of Utah
Books & works: The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game
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