Summer Fridays: How to get your sense of wonder back (w/ Nate DiMeo) (re-release)
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Thanks for listening to How to Be a Better Human. This summer, we're doing something special. We're calling it Better Human Summer Fridays. And every Friday this summer, we are going to be dropping a special episode on the feed pulled straight from the How to Be a Better Human archive. These are conversations that I loved and that our team loved. And we think a lot of you may have never heard. And we think they deserve another moment in the sun. So we're giving them that literal moment in the sun here in the summertime. This show has grown a lot over the years. So this is our way of making sure that if you found us recently, you're not missing out on one of the conversations that I am still thinking about sometimes years later.
And if you are a day one Better Human listener, well, first of all, thank you. Thanks for listening for all these years. And I hope that you will enjoy this trip back into our archive, back into some of the best conversations that we've had in the past. So let's get into it. Here's Better Human Summer Fridays. You're listening to How to Be a Better Human. I am your host, Chris Duffy. Today on the podcast, we are talking with the host of one of the most unique and long-running audio shows around, The Memory Palace. Nate DiMaio, who created that show, is someone who, for me, really embodies the spirit of curiosity. Nate's able to find these... deep, powerful meanings in stories from the past. And he has this superpower where he can tell a true story from hundreds of years ago and make it feel completely alive.
And at the same time, he shines a light on the historical context and also the parallels to today. So when I think about questions like, how do you make sense of the present? And how do you find wonder in the past? There's no one who is better at answering those questions, in my opinion, than Nate DiMeo. And Nate is on the show with us today to help us answer those questions and so much more. To get started, here's a clip from Nate's new audiobook, which is also titled The Memory Palace.
Something moved me once. That's how all these stories begin for me. Some historical something, some fact or anecdote, came into my day, usually unannounced, over the radio, at a museum, in a text from a friend, on one of the 700 tabs open on my browser, or embedded in some larger work, and changed it. Somehow managed to cut through the whir and sputter of life and move me. Often I don't know why. That fascinates me. Why this story? Why this video? Why has some other person's experience and memory from some other time made their way into mine? Why in the rushing, roiling stream of information that inundates pretty much all of us, pretty much every day, pretty much all day long, was this bit of the past the thing that glinted and caught my eye and connected, snapped me into presence, filled me with wonder?
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:28
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What is Better Human Summer Fridays and why is this episode being re-released?
4:28–11:07
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Who is Nate DiMeo and how does The Memory Palace make history feel alive?
11:07–26:28
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How does Nate choose historical stories that spark wonder rather than facts?
26:28–40:37
Speakers
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