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Intelligence Squared · 2025-12-26 · 39 min · 7,146 words

Michael Rosen on Hope, Happiness and Finding Joy in the Small Things (Part Two)

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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. For this episode, we're rejoining for part two of our recent live event with author, poet and broadcaster Michael Rosen. Rosen joined us live at the Shaw Theatre to explore grief, recovery and the everyday moments that give us joy. And meaning.

He was in conversation with presenter and broadcaster L. Osilly Wood. If you haven't heard part one, do just jump back an episode and get up to speed. But now let's rejoin the conversation live at the Shaw Theatre in London. I feel like that leads very nicely into the next chapter that I want to talk about, where you talk about the balance of the ideal and the good enough, you know, not necessarily just about bathwater, but in life, and I think so many of us.

struggle with, you know, that feeling of of do we settle for the good enough or do we reach for perfection? So how do you find that balance? Yes, we we will do that. That's under H for hummus. That's right.

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