What is a Good Life?

On the 63rd episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Adah Parris. Adah is a futurist, artist, keynote speaker, and a visionary in the fields of technology, ecology, innovation, and art. She chairs Mental Health First Aid England and is a Fellow at The Royal Society of the Arts. She is recognised as a TED Talks Global Emerging Innovator and celebrated by Forbes Brazil as one of the top futurists in the world. 

In this episode, Adah shares with us her journey to being herself, how curiosity and not following convention influence her life, the lessons she has learned about honesty and transparency in relationships, and meeting the human in each other before anything else. She notes the significance of seeing life as a series of experiments and shares what contributes to being both a good ancestor and being in kinship with the world around us. 

If you find yourself stuck in life and are unsure of what to do next, or feel your present ways of relating to others are causing you difficulty, Adah’s perspectives will give you so much to contemplate across a wide breadth of themes and topics that may help you see the world a little differently.

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Running Order:
03:00 What type of ancestor do you want to be?
08:00 How values and curiosity shape Adah’s life
12:30 The journey to Adah being herself
18:40 Seeing life as a series of experiments
25:15 Letting go of how life should be
30:30 Lessons from authentic relating
36:15 The value and importance of difference
42:25 The importance of presence 
49:30 Technology, busyness, and relating
54:48 Distorting Time
1:02:10 Being a good ancestor and kinship
1:07:52 Summary and what is a good life for Adah?




What is What is a Good Life??

Over the last three years I've interviewed over 250 people around the question of "what is a good life?". I am not trying to find or prescribe universal answers to this question, instead to prompt your own inquiry into what constitutes a good life for you. While I am also trying to share more genuine expressions of the human experience, beyond the masks that we wear.