Maria Popova
speaker
931 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Maria Popova’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think the self is such a tedious place.
We live in it.
And especially in our culture where people lead with identities and opinions, which are the most superficial, malleable, changeable, uninteresting parts of personhood.
It's very easy to become imprisoned in the self.
How incredible that evolution gave us a safe place to practice the possible.
How wonderful and strange to be back here some 15 years later.
Well, first of all, I should probably listen because we become in every retelling of who we are, right?
To the extent that the world is only rendered real in the mind...
It is a mind view, meaning it is how I experience my own mind working.
I think most of our minds work that way naturally.
And when we are able to kind of perceive the process, we call it creativity, this kind of aggregation, combination that is creation.
You know, it's interesting.
Wonder is one of those things that is so elemental and so universal, you might actually miss it.
Meaning you might experience it, but not know what it is.
And I certainly didn't have the word for it until only recently looking back on my life and seeing that common denominator.
I don't have many early childhood memories, but the ones that I do have all have an element of being...
very present in a moment in time, usually in the natural world, and this feeling of a great peace and a great surprise at the same time.
And to me, that is wonder.
Well, it was a total act of hubris, actually.
I hadn't considered that one.
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