54 min
Jenna and Benjamin Storey on the Art of Choosing What to do With Your Life Books and a Balance
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Many students go to college with career ambitions in mind, or perhaps because it seems like the next thing they’re “supposed to” do. But when questions of “why” arise—why pursue this or that job, one way of life or another—they are often perplexed. What does a good life look like? How should I live my life? What does it mean to “pursue” happiness? These fundamental questions we ask ourselves are all the more important for students in their formative adult years. Our guests, Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey, senior fellows at the American Enterprise Institute and research professors at Furman University, join Brendan Boyle to reflect on nearly two decades of helping students discover and ask these kinds of questions about their lives through a liberal arts education.
Links:
The Art of Choosing What to do With Your Life (NYT) Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment Plato, Gorgias Aquinas, Treatise on Happiness Hope for the Lost Souls of Liberalism (WSJ)
Many students go to college with career ambitions in mind, or perhaps because it seems like the next thing they’re “supposed to” do. But when questions of “why” arise—why pursue this or that job, one way of life or another—they are often perplexed. What does a good life look like? How should I live my life? What does it mean to “pursue” happiness? These fundamental questions we ask ourselves are all the more important for students in their formative adult years. Our guests, Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey, senior fellows at the American Enterprise Institute and research professors at Furman University, join Brendan Boyle to reflect on nearly two decades of helping students discover and ask these kinds of questions about their lives through a liberal arts education.
Links:
The Art of Choosing What to do With Your Life (NYT) Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment Plato, Gorgias Aquinas, Treatise on Happiness Hope for the Lost Souls of Liberalism (WSJ)
54 min