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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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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 4 Arts and letters 16 Politics and public life 5 Business and finance 4 Technology 1 Sport 1
Read by age Any age In their thirties 2 In their forties 1 In their fifties 2 In their sixties 3 Seventy and beyond 3
Steve Jobs Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't. That's going to break people's hearts. I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die.
Recorded Gary Wolf, Wired 4.02, February 1996 source ↗

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