Values & belief

What have you come to understand about what it means to be human?

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Krista Tippett, to her guests, On Being

Krista Tippett uses this as a recurring, sometimes-closing On Being question; the wording is intentionally adapted to each guest.

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Alex Honnold Rock climber; first person to free solo El Capitan
Well, don’t you think that we are all like that? I mean in some ways the deepest fear for a lot of people is getting to the end of their life and think that they did it wrong.
Recorded 52 Insights, 14 January 2019 source ↗

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