2022-08-22
34 分钟Most of us want to be good people–but what even makes a person “good?” And is our fixation on whether or not we ARE good holding us back from becoming even better? Dolly Chugh is an author and social psychologist who studies the psychology of good people. In this episode, she explains how ethical behavior is full of complexity and paradox, and shares insights on why even striving to be a “good-ish” person can actually help us grow into the better, nicer person we want to become.
Ted audio collective I'm your host, Chris Duffy, and this is how to be a better human.
In today's episode, we're going to dive a little bit deeper into the whole.
Premise of this show.
If you've been listening for a while, you have probably heard me say before.
That I am not the better human of the title.
Very clearly I am not.
I am just the guy who is talking to some people who seem to.
Have it figured out.
So hopefully you and I can learn together.
And over the course of so many episodes, I have heard about a plethora.
Of ways that we can try and be better.
And hopefully some of those topics that we've covered have resonated with your own efforts to be a little less terrible.
But how do we know when we've achieved our target?
How do we know when we are officially a good person?
It seems like at some point we've got to be done right.
At some point we have to hit the finish line.
Well, today's guest psychologist, Dolly Chug, she.
Thinks that not only are we never done, she thinks that the goal of being a good person is actually something we shouldn't be striving for at all.
Here's a clip from her TED talk.
Where she talks all about it.