{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"1.1 / Why you should want to be proved wrong","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2109,"description":"In ancient Athens, almost everything came down to a vote. If you could get the crowd on your side, it didn't matter whether you were right or wrong. You won. The teachers who trained people to argue that way were called sophists, and their goal was never truth. It was winning. Today we'd call them influencers.\nThis is the first episode of The Dialog. My co-host Nick Surface and I start with why we're doing this at all: to want the truth more than we want to win. Nick put a name on something I've believed for a long time, the joy of being wrong. If someone proves you wrong, you're the one that conversation served, because now you can fix it and get better.\nWhat is philosophy?\nThe Stoic Musonius Rufus said philosophy is nothing more than to search out by reason what is right and proper, and by deeds to put it into practice. Your philosophy is your criteria for making decisions every day, so everyone is a philosopher. The question is whether yours is a winning philosophy of life.\nWhy do good decisions blow up on us?\nEvery experience colors the glasses we see through. In any situation, the most intentional person wins, and you can't be intentional without a goal for your whole life.\nWhat does \"dialog\" mean?\nIt comes from διά (dia), meaning through, and λόγος (logos), reason. Socrates and Plato believed that when people reason together, a third partner shows up: an answer neither person had before.\nOur rules for an honest conversation\n1. Say what you believe, and live it.\n2. Want the truth more than you want to win.\n3. Be open and honest about what you really believe.\n4. Don't treat an attack on your belief as an attack on you.\n5. Embrace the limits of what you know.\nScriptures\nEphesians 2:10 · Ecclesiastes 1:9\nThinkers and books\nMusonius Rufus · Socrates · Heraclitus · Plato · Augustine · Dan Sullivan, Who Not How · Josh Craft, The Way to Live\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show intro\n0:52 Who, not how: why we're doing this together\n3:18 Learning the art of living...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7YsfA4gq5VzjhvmKvDET1pQqT0OM6yxv1laklKclR7g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWZh/MTRmZDEzOWRjZGQz/Y2M2NThkNzYwOTJj/ODA4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}