How To Live Well—Even Amidst Failure, Uncertainty, Loss, and Physical Pain | Kieran Setiya

This is the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey hey, how we doing, everybody. I think a common assumption that many of us, uh myself included, Might make Is uh that a good life definitionally excludes things like failure, chronic pain, grief, uncertainty, et cetera, et cetera.

But for millennia philosophers have been thinking often in very practical ways about how you can lead A good life that includes Yeah. Karen Sadia is a professor of philosophy at MIT. He's written a couple of books, including Midlife, a Philosophical Guide.

And life is hard, how philosophy can help us find our way. In this conversation, we talk about how Kieran got interested in practical philosophy and in philosophy more generally. We do a brief history of philosophy, what's it for, the connection between philosophy and self-help, whether Buddhism is a philosophy The upside of missing out as opposed to FOMO, Kieran's mild beef with the stoics. techniques for dealing grief and loss, while living well is not the same as feeling happy. The connection between Plato, Aristotle, and the Contemporary.

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