Studio Sessions
53. The Terrible Master: On Ego, Perception, and the Choice to See Differently
1:47:12
We play David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech, This Is Water, and one of us hears Groundhog Day in it: Phil Connors lives the same day until he stops believing he's the center of the universe. Wallace calls that self-centeredness our default setting, and says the real work is choosing what to pay attention to, even in a slow checkout line. One of us has been practicing it at home,…