David Epstein

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582 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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for people and so enjoyable.

And so I think a lot of that what I'm writing about in the last chapter really dovetails with the wisdom you were just saying.

It's and it sounds simple.

And yet it's the thing we rarely do.

figure out ways to live where our feet are at that moment.

Kids

Absolutely.

And I think that's something that I discovered well before even writing this book because

I transitioned from

training to be a scientist, to being a science writer.

And

I think one of the challenges early in my career.

And that I think persists in among journalists and especially science writers.

You don't wanna ask the questions that you're most curious about or where you least understand because you feel like

You want the person you're interviewing to think you're smart and that you know what you're talking about.

But that doesn't help you do your job at all.

Because

You're a conduit for the eventual reader.

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