As the year draws to a close and the collective mood turns reflective, we asked you—our listeners—to pick moments from the first season that stuck with you and inspired you. In today’s episode, we yield the floor in gratitude and compiled some of those insights that resonated most with our community. From psychologist Guy Winch’s thoughts on strategic discomfort to poet Sarah Kay’s meditations on compassion, tune in for an eclectic collection of ideas to set you on that path toward becoming a better human in 2022. To learn more about "How to Be a Better Human," host Chris Duffy, or find footnotes and additional resources, please visit: go.ted.com/betterhuman
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You'Re listening to how to be a better human.
I'm your host, Chris Duffy, and this is our last episode of season one.
We wanted to wrap up the first year of our show by looking back a little bit, and it has been a strange time to be making a podcast.
It has been a strange time to be a human.
Sometimes recording these episodes in a room alone in my house, it has felt hard to believe that other people actually hear the show at all.
And yet you do.
I know that I speak for everyone who makes this show when I say that we are all so appreciative to you for listening, and we are all genuinely blown away by the support and enthusiasm and the thoughtful engagement that people all over the world have made with our show.
So for our final episode of the year, we asked you what stood out, and here are the top moments of how to be a better human according to you, the listeners.
We got your feedback through surveys, through reviews, through emails and through social media.
And all of our guests had insights and lessons to take away.
But the majority of folks on our social media said that their favorite episode on mental health was with psychologist Guy wench.
One of the things that I talk about that I think is really interesting is that when a lot of people are giving advice about what you should do in a certain situation, right, go and have the confrontation, go and have the discussion.
Go and change the habit.
It is actually really, really, really difficult.
You have to put yourself through significant emotional discomfort often to do the healthier thing than the unhealthier thing.
Emotionally, it's much less comfortable.
It's very uncomfortable for someone who's lonely to go, to put themselves out there and be vulnerable, as we're saying you need to be, it is extremely uncomfortable and it feels risky.
And people don't let other people know that.
It's going to be really difficult.