2024-11-02
42 分钟Tennis teaches you not to be distracted from being in the very present at every moment that you're out there competing.
It's more important to be present in life than even on a tennis court.
That's eight time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi on everything and nothing to do with tennis.
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The New York Times, this is the interview.
I'm David Marchese.
Maybe it sounds corny, but in my own little way, I really do try to make the world a better place.
I think about the ethics of what I eat, I donate to charity,
I give time and energy to helping those less fortunate in my community.
And according to Peter Singer, those efforts pretty much add up to bupkis.
Singer is arguably the world's most influential living philosopher.
His work rose out of utilitarianism,
the view
that a good action is one that within reason maximizes the well being of the greatest number of lives possible.
He spent decades trying to get people to take a more critical look at their own ethics and what well meaning,
comfortable people can actually do to make the world a better place.
His landmark 1975 book, Animal Liberation helped popularize vegan and vegetarian eating habits.
His new book Consider the Turkey builds on those ideas as a polemic against the Thanksgiving meal.
And his writing on what the wealthy owe the poor, which is a lot more than they're giving,