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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And then, of course, this tends to happen when I replaced contempt with curiosity, which we don't do as often as we should.
That's a good tombstone title.
She went from contempt to curiosity and died.
Anyway, I came to see that people need these languages of interpretation of our own experience because we're living with so much uncertainty.
We're so opaque to ourselves.
And we could use these aids, right?
But what allowed you to move from skepticism to curiosity?
Because the people I loved, like my friend Tom, who's the closest thing I have to a brother, actually uses tarot.
And I was like, Tom is not an idiot.
Yay, Tom.
But, you know, these are the judgments we make about people.
We think people are idiots because they don't see things the way we do.
And it's so habitual we don't even catch it.
Anyway, I, of course, though being very stubborn and wanting the other table, wanting to build the new table, decided I was going to make a kind of anti-tarot deck of my own of divinations from the birds, because I was still thinking about what does it all mean, these birds coming to my dreams.
And I would make 41 of these little decks, and I would give them to friends for my 41st birthday.
For my birthdays, I prefer giving presents to receiving presents.
And so I started, who knows why, I have a long history of cutting up things and making new things out of them.
For example, for you, I had once cut up a little golden book and made a poem.
You should also know Debbie made these incredible comments.
films with hand-drawn typography and pencil, mostly pencil art, based on movies that she was watching.
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