Midweek Reset: Kieran Setiya on failure + process

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This week, Kieran Setyia, professor of philosophy at MIT and author of “ Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way ” reflects on failure and suggests we push back on how we frame our lives through successes and failures, winners and…

This week, Kieran Setyia, professor of philosophy at MIT and author of “Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way” reflects on failure and suggests we push back on how we frame our lives through successes and failures, winners and losers. Doing so, Setyia says, doesn’t make us succeed more but allows “failure to take a different shape and have less centrality” in how we value our lives. 


Kieran Setyia. Photo courtesy of Kieran Setiya. 

This episode of Life Examined with Kieran Setyia was originally broadcast September 24th, 2022

Credits

Guest:

  • Kieran Setiya - Author; Professor of Philosophy, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - @kieransetiya

Host:

Jonathan Bastian

Producer:

Andrea Brody