Cooked, slayed, delivered, ate. In episode 108 of Overthink, Ellie and David break down what it means to succeed, and why this sneaky word pervades our society today - in everything from the ambitions of classic American stage figures, to the refined effortlessness in Zhuangzi’s tales, to the corporate world of buzzwords. Your hosts discuss party planning, tenure tracks, inspirational quotes, haters, why science seems so successful, and the pitfalls of thinking we’ve got it all figured out. P...
Hello and welcome to Overthink, the podcast.
That succeeds at connecting philosophy to contemporary life.
I'm Ellie Anderson.
And I'm David Pena Guzman.
David, if you Google philosophy success, you are likely not to find anything actually philosophical.
What you are likely instead to find, I'm not sure if you found this too,
is a bunch of sort of corporate BS about, like, eight hacks for success.
So I actually had a hard time initially, like,
linking into the research for this episode because it was just a wall of, like, corporate stuff.
Yeah, I got a lot of, like, five steps to make your company successful, a lot of, like, how to and a lot of manuals.
And it was also a lot of, like, I am the CEO of such and such.
Here is my philosophy for success.
Exactly.
Exactly.
That was it.
And so my next step.
And don't worry, these weren't my only two steps.
We are better researchers than this.
But my next step was to Google philosophy success quotes, and I found some real gems.
So I want to start off the episode today by sharing some of what I found.