2021-01-12
29 分钟TeD audio collective.
Hey there.
You're listening to the very first episode of how to be a better Human from Ted.
I'm your host, Chris Duffy, and I'm hoping that together on this show, we can learn how to be better humans together.
That's kind of a big promise, putting out a podcast called how to be a better human.
When Ted first approached me about it, I was like, are you sure you actually have the right Chris Duffy?
I'm a comedian and a tv writer.
I'm not like a self help guru psychologist, but they told me that was kind of the point.
I haven't learned all this.
I don't know how to be a better human, but I want to learn, and hopefully you want to learn too.
Let's try and learn together.
We're coming off this really challenging year, you know that I don't have to tell you that.
It has been a year, though, where I feel like we've all been really faced with shortcomings, both societal and individual.
And it's a year when it has been very, very, very clear that there's a lot of work to be done and we desperately need more people to be doing that work.
So on every episode of the show, we're going to have a guest expert, someone from the Ted universe who's full of ideas and information, someone who's given a talk.
But instead of just letting them say their big ideas and then walk away, I'm going to be asking them questions to get at what the rest of us are actually supposed to do.
Like how do we take their big ideas and put them into practice?
How do we change or improve our own lives?
Over the course of the season, were going to talk about everything from relationships to social media to grief to climate change, to making the best choices when you go on a movie binge.
But for this first episode, were going to start with a topic that is both timeless and universal, and yet its a topic that so many of us have experienced much more acutely over the past few months.