{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Forged: Timeless Ways of Living","title":"The Cost of Ambition and a Life Worth Living with Miroslav Volf","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3495,"description":"What happens when your sense of worth depends on being better than the people around you? And what changes when you stop asking how you rank and start asking what kind of life is actually worth living? Brian Williams talks with theologian Miroslav Volf about the difference between excellence and superiority, the fragility of a self built on achievement, and the possibility of receiving our lives as gifts rather than projects of endless comparison. Drawing on Life Worth Living and The Cost of Ambition, they consider education, vocation, place, gratitude, contentment, and the communities that help us discern what we are for. Listen for a hopeful account of how we can pursue meaningful work and genuine excellence without making success the measure of our worth.\nAlong the way, Volf reflects on growing up in Yugoslavia as the son of a Pentecostal minister, discerning his calling as a theologian, the disciplines and delights that sustain his ordinary life, and the writers who have helped him think about contentment, vocation, and hope.\nAbout the Guest\nMiroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.  His many books include Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most, The Cost of Ambition: How Striving to Be Better than Others Makes Us Worse, and Glimmerings: Letters on Faith between a Poet and a Theologian.\n\nGuest Links\nYale Center for Faith & Culture | https://faith.yale.edu/\nLife Worth Living | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691260/life-worth-living-by-miroslav-volf-matthew-croasmun-and-ryan-mcannally-linz/\nThe Cost of Ambition | https://bakerbookhouse.com/products/9781587437311_the-cost-of-ambition?srsltid=AfmBOopzP8KPhrxDR6EZM-VjIwfoeo4nhB36_Y-br3sffcYsk2BOWmQX\n\nEpisode References / Resources\nLife Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz\nThe Cost of Ambition: How Striving to Be Better...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/KTbBD8bgFaq-gNjtcFVbWCDJ5WjX2yagnVN5576RNCo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kODQ0/ZTJmNmZkMzNhM2Nm/YjUyMzFhYzEzZjkz/NTExMi5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}