Latest / Silver FM 100.6 / The ingredients for a 'nice life'

Transcript

The ingredients for a 'nice life' · Silver FM 100.6

0:00
Speaker 1: This message comes from the podcast Five Miles from Home.
0:03
Speaker 1: When a high school student disappears from a small Nevada town,
0:07
Speaker 1: a story of betrayal and shocking confessions emerges. Hosted by
0:11
Speaker 1: Datelines Keith Morrison search five Miles from Home to follow.
0:15
Speaker 2: Now, A nice life is that little something extra. It's
0:26
Speaker 2: I experienced joy and pleasure and I made those things
0:29
Speaker 2: for myself. I had agency, and I made choices that
0:33
Speaker 2: allowed me to feel that little bit of sparkle, that
0:36
Speaker 2: little bit of like twinkle in your eye, that spring
0:38
Speaker 2: in your step, a little mischief.
0:44
Speaker 3: You're listening to Life Kit. I'm Mary el Sagata. We
0:47
Speaker 3: did a live taping recently at wr Fest, a festival
0:51
Speaker 3: hosted by Boston and PR station WR Fun Fact, also
0:55
Speaker 3: where I started out as a public radio intern. The
0:58
Speaker 3: topic was to have a nice life, and our guest
1:02
Speaker 3: was Rachel Wilkerson Miller, who's the senior editor of Box
1:05
Speaker 3: and has a book coming out called The Nice Life,
1:08
Speaker 3: How to elevate the every day and find joy in
1:11
Speaker 3: what you have. Yeah, I think there's a bit of
1:15
Speaker 3: elegance in a nice life. But again, not when when
1:19
Speaker 3: we say elegance, I think we often would think of
1:22
Speaker 3: spending a lot of money. But we've talked about this.
1:25
Speaker 3: Can you buy your way to a nice life? Say not?
1:27
Speaker 3: And not to me?
1:27
Speaker 2: Is central I say in the book, It's about punching
1:30
Speaker 2: above your weight without living above your means. It's about
1:33
Speaker 2: finding ways to elevate, to bring a little something extra
1:36
Speaker 2: that often doesn't cost money. Like it could be a
1:39
Speaker 2: meaningful conversation with a friend or a neighbor. It could
1:42
Speaker 2: be something you thrifted or got at a garage sale
1:45
Speaker 2: or found in the garbage that brings you a lot
1:47
Speaker 2: of joy. It could be something that you make yourself
1:49
Speaker 2: and use very inexpensive materials, or again, something you found
1:53
Speaker 2: in the recycling bin. I think people sort of know
1:55
Speaker 2: those things when they see them. But so much of
1:57
Speaker 2: it goes back to creativity, art and can action with
2:00
Speaker 2: other people.
2:03
Speaker 3: On this episode of Life Kit, you'll hear that conversation.
2:05
Speaker 1: We talk about art.
2:07
Speaker 3: And beauty, curiosity, falcons ulysses, us, grant and much more.
2:21
Speaker 3: In the book, you lay out qualities to pursue if
2:24
Speaker 3: you are trying to cultivate a nice life, and one
2:27
Speaker 3: of those is beauty. Can you talk about what that
2:29
Speaker 3: means to you?
2:31
Speaker 2: So I mentioned art is a huge part of this,
2:33
Speaker 2: and I think beauty can exist in a lot of
2:35
Speaker 2: different ways. It could be a beautiful building or architecture,
2:38
Speaker 2: or the face of somebody you care about, or a flower.
2:42
Speaker 2: I think just starting to look for it and really
2:44
Speaker 2: orienting yourself toward it is so exciting and thrilling, and again,
2:49
Speaker 2: it helps remind you that, oh, these things exist in
2:51
Speaker 2: all these different places. It's not necessarily about something that
2:55
Speaker 2: is expensive or that I'm seeing on Instagram that I
2:57
Speaker 2: want to buy. It can be so much simpler than that.
3:00
Speaker 2: It's so often human made. And I think really starting
3:03
Speaker 2: to look for art in my everyday life was a
3:05
Speaker 2: really transformative experience because I used to think of art
3:08
Speaker 2: as something that I went out and did, and I.
3:11
Speaker 4: Still do that.
3:11
Speaker 2: I still go to shows and I go to museums
3:14
Speaker 2: and I love those experiences. But there's art everywhere, and
3:18
Speaker 2: I think once you start to notice it, it's so
3:20
Speaker 2: satisfying and reassuring and kind of thrilling. And that's a
3:24
Speaker 2: really easy example of how to just find a little
3:26
Speaker 2: bit of beauty in your everyday life.
3:29
Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about the consumer aspect of it, because
3:33
Speaker 3: I feel like when you are seeking especially beauty in
3:37
Speaker 3: your space. You can end up thinking that means I
3:40
Speaker 3: have to buy all this stuff, and you can also
3:43
Speaker 3: sort of be stealing from your own joy because you're
3:47
Speaker 3: working towards some future version of you and your home,
3:52
Speaker 3: for instance, where everything's going to be perfect and look
3:54
Speaker 3: just like a magazine, and that to me seems like
3:56
Speaker 3: the opposite of a nice life. I wonder what you're
3:59
Speaker 3: advice for folks who find themselves in that spiral aka me, Well.
4:05
Speaker 2: I should say for starters like I am not a minimalist,
4:07
Speaker 2: so I understand this tension very well. And I think
4:10
Speaker 2: one thing I've had to learn over the years is
4:13
Speaker 2: what stuff will actually make me happy or mean something
4:17
Speaker 2: to me, and what stuff I will regret kind of
4:20
Speaker 2: immediately or it will end up in a landfill. And
4:24
Speaker 2: there was in my twenties where I was like, I
4:25
Speaker 2: can't just keep buying dresses from forever twenty one. This
4:28
Speaker 2: is wasteful and bad, and I really had to cut
4:31
Speaker 2: myself off and that forced me to slow down. And
4:34
Speaker 2: it was like, if I'm going to buy something, I'm
4:36
Speaker 2: gonna have to wear this for a long time, so
4:38
Speaker 2: I need to take good care of it. I need
4:40
Speaker 2: to feel relatively confident I will continue to wear it
4:43
Speaker 2: for a while, even if it's forever twenty one, even
4:46
Speaker 2: if it's from a thrift store and it was originally
4:47
Speaker 2: from forever twenty one, Like, how can I treat it
4:50
Speaker 2: like it matters? Because I think there's this mindset of like, oh,
4:53
Speaker 2: buy nicer things, but buy less of them, and like, sure,
4:56
Speaker 2: but if you can't afford to buy nicer things, you
4:59
Speaker 2: might still need to try I buy less and treat
5:01
Speaker 2: it well. And I think that that mindset really helped me,
5:04
Speaker 2: hone what I like for starters. I think so much
5:07
Speaker 2: of the I'm buying this and why did I buy
5:09
Speaker 2: this comes from not really knowing yourself or knowing your intention.
5:13
Speaker 2: So I think just getting in the habit of taking
5:15
Speaker 2: this a second to ask yourself what does this mean
5:18
Speaker 2: to me? And I think with your home in particular,
5:22
Speaker 2: it's very easy to feel sort of influenced by what
5:24
Speaker 2: you're seeing online in a given moment that doesn't really
5:29
Speaker 2: make for a home that feels cozy or that you
5:31
Speaker 2: actually want to be in.
5:32
Speaker 3: I don't know.
5:32
Speaker 2: Sometimes I watch these home tours of celebrities and I'm
5:35
Speaker 2: just like, where's your stuff? Like, where's your stuff? Because
5:39
Speaker 2: it doesn't feel like they chose it. And I think
5:41
Speaker 2: that's the big thing, is you choosing something?
5:51
Speaker 3: All right, y'all take away one. If you want to
5:54
Speaker 3: have a nice life, seek beauty wherever you can. That
5:58
Speaker 3: doesn't necessarily mean buying anything. Look around you. What did
6:01
Speaker 3: you see today that was beautiful? When we come back,
6:05
Speaker 3: more from Rachel about how to cultivate the skill of noticing.
6:24
Speaker 5: This is our glass on this American Life, one that
6:27
Speaker 5: we like. It's a good mystery. Sometimes it's about really
6:30
Speaker 5: big things, but most times the little mysteries are the best.
6:34
Speaker 6: Are Lost and found is currently filled with pants.
6:37
Speaker 7: I don't know.
6:38
Speaker 4: I've never seen this happen.
6:40
Speaker 8: That's true.
6:40
Speaker 5: This is true mysteries of every size each week, This
6:45
Speaker 5: American Life. Wherever you get your podcasts.
6:48
Speaker 6: For instant clarity on world events in just five minutes,
6:52
Speaker 6: listen to NBR news Now. New episodes drop every hour
6:56
Speaker 6: with the latest on you as politics, international news, the economy, health, science, technology,
7:01
Speaker 6: and more. Five minutes is all it takes to get
7:04
Speaker 6: fully caught up with NPR News Now. Listen on the
7:08
Speaker 6: NPR app or wherever you get podcasts.
7:12
Speaker 8: Your favorite toys are back in Toy Story five, and
7:15
Speaker 8: they're facing some new competition, the Dreaded Tablet. How will
7:19
Speaker 8: Buzz and Witty handle kids glued to screens and how
7:22
Speaker 8: does this new movie compare to others in the franchise.
7:25
Speaker 8: We get into it on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour
7:27
Speaker 8: listen via the NPR app wherever you get your podcasts.
7:32
Speaker 3: A lot of this goes back to the art of noticing.
7:36
Speaker 3: At Life Kit, we talk about this a lot. We
7:37
Speaker 3: talk about basically mindfulness techniques that help you stay present
7:42
Speaker 3: and help you just live a happier life. I would say,
7:46
Speaker 3: live a life where you're seeing what's in front of you,
7:49
Speaker 3: and part of that is about putting down your phone
7:52
Speaker 3: so that you can notice things and leaving space to notice.
7:56
Speaker 2: All of this is a way of stepping outside of yourself,
7:59
Speaker 2: and I think that's important. I think, especially if you're
8:01
Speaker 2: on your phone a lot, or only talking to your partner,
8:05
Speaker 2: a couple coworkers, or whoever. You forget there's a big
8:07
Speaker 2: world out there. We're going to get through this. It's
8:10
Speaker 2: going to be okay. And I think that perspective and
8:13
Speaker 2: feeling a little small is helpful. Like one of the
8:16
Speaker 2: things I like about art and museums is it's like,
8:18
Speaker 2: oh my god, three hundred years ago people were concerned
8:21
Speaker 2: about the same things. They were concerned about war and
8:24
Speaker 2: losing a loved one and grieving, but they were also
8:26
Speaker 2: they loved their pet and they wanted to, you know,
8:29
Speaker 2: remember this beautiful peach. And I think just seeing that
8:33
Speaker 2: really helps me when I'm struggling to just step outside
8:35
Speaker 2: of myself and to sort of get that perspective that
8:37
Speaker 2: can be hard day to day.
8:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a good day to day practice,
8:42
Speaker 3: and it's also a good break glass in case of emergency,
8:45
Speaker 3: like you are really pissed off, and turning my mind
8:52
Speaker 3: to beauty and just like noticing the present can help
8:57
Speaker 3: a lot with I think anxiety and also with nerves
9:02
Speaker 3: in general. Like I was playing softball the other day
9:05
Speaker 3: and a falcon came and landed on the fence of
9:09
Speaker 3: the dugout. I'd never seen one before. They are so beautiful,
9:14
Speaker 3: and like everyone sort of turned and looked at the
9:16
Speaker 3: falcon for you know, a minute, because the softball game
9:19
Speaker 3: could pause. It's just a rec league softball game, but
9:22
Speaker 3: it was this huge opportunity to see this gorgeous bird,
9:25
Speaker 3: which gets to another point in your book about curiosity.
9:29
Speaker 2: I love this. So I interviewed an a researcher for
9:33
Speaker 2: this book, who was incredible. He researches AWE as a
9:36
Speaker 2: way of being resilient.
9:37
Speaker 3: And AWE is like, what is How can you define awe?
9:41
Speaker 2: You can describe it as something that moves you, that
9:42
Speaker 2: like forces you to accommodate a new way of thinking.
9:46
Speaker 2: And he and I talked about like, that's like big
9:48
Speaker 2: AWE that's standing in front of the Grand Canyon and
9:50
Speaker 2: feeling so moved and a little afraid, But there's also
9:54
Speaker 2: little AWE, which you can't experience the Grand Canyon every day,
9:58
Speaker 2: Like those are going to be rare moments about your life,
10:01
Speaker 2: but little AWE might be just seeing a flower or
10:03
Speaker 2: seeing a falcon. Yeah, these moments that are not so transformative,
10:07
Speaker 2: but that they do pull you out of your own head,
10:10
Speaker 2: help you in the present moment spark curiosity. And one
10:14
Speaker 2: of the things that he was saying is that AWE
10:16
Speaker 2: on its own is great, but the experience of talking
10:18
Speaker 2: about or experiencing all with somebody else is even better.
10:22
Speaker 2: So just you sharing this story right now is like
10:25
Speaker 2: a great way of connecting because now I'm learning something
10:28
Speaker 2: about you and like we can like sort of share
10:30
Speaker 2: in this together. That's a perfect encapsulation of the sort
10:33
Speaker 2: of curiosity and moments that to me make up a
10:36
Speaker 2: nice life.
10:37
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think sometimes it's about remembering that you have
10:40
Speaker 3: agency in a lot of situations that you might not think,
10:43
Speaker 3: like places where we're on autopilot. You're in the middle
10:47
Speaker 3: of a softball game, or you're in the middle of
10:49
Speaker 3: a meeting or the middle of a doctor's appointment, where
10:51
Speaker 3: someplace where you're not supposed to stop and you ask
10:55
Speaker 3: a question, someplace where you're not supposed to stop and
10:57
Speaker 3: notice something funny or beautiful. Well, but we actually have
11:02
Speaker 3: in a lot of situations agency to stop and do that,
11:05
Speaker 3: and people will appreciate it more than you might think.
11:08
Speaker 2: I think that's a big thing is that people actually
11:10
Speaker 2: welcome it. And again it's that moment of reaching out
11:13
Speaker 2: and sort of offering an opportunity for connection. People are
11:16
Speaker 2: too afraid to ask for it, and so you can
11:18
Speaker 2: give somebody the gift of going first. The sharing involved
11:22
Speaker 2: in that I find so meaningful and uplifting and important.
11:29
Speaker 3: All right, take away too. Another element of a nice life,
11:32
Speaker 3: According to Rachel is curiosity. What is something that you've
11:41
Speaker 3: become really curious about lately.
11:43
Speaker 2: Well, I've been reading a book the past week essentially
11:46
Speaker 2: about the building I live in and the type of
11:47
Speaker 2: building I live in. It's a former limited equity co op,
11:50
Speaker 2: which is a very specific type of housing in New
11:52
Speaker 2: York City. So I've been reading about the history of
11:55
Speaker 2: that and how this building and other ones like it
11:58
Speaker 2: were built. So that is a very close to home
12:00
Speaker 2: version of it. That was also inspired. I live near
12:02
Speaker 2: the Tenement Museum, so doing a tour there was really
12:06
Speaker 2: interesting and kind of the connection between all of these things.
12:09
Speaker 2: So I would say I'm very curious about my neighborhood,
12:12
Speaker 2: and it's been a pleasure to learn more about the
12:14
Speaker 2: place I live and to see the places I go
12:16
Speaker 2: or live mentioned in a book and to be able
12:19
Speaker 2: to read the history of it is really thrilling. So
12:22
Speaker 2: that's just a cool opportunity. But I think looking for
12:24
Speaker 2: curiosity close to home is a great place to start.
12:28
Speaker 3: I have been getting really into the presidents lately.
12:31
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good one.
12:32
Speaker 3: There are certain presidents that I'm learning about, and now
12:34
Speaker 3: I'm getting into the ones that we weren't taught, so
12:37
Speaker 3: much about in school, like Ulysses s Grant, who is
12:40
Speaker 3: so interesting?
12:42
Speaker 2: I'm guilty of late night my partner falls asleep and
12:45
Speaker 2: I'm just on Wikipedia trying to answer a question. Yeah,
12:48
Speaker 2: and I think you might be a similar type of person.
12:50
Speaker 2: And I think just starting with the question of like
12:52
Speaker 2: I want to know more about that, I don't know.
12:53
Speaker 2: I don't need to explain myself. I just like to
12:55
Speaker 2: know more. And following it as far as it takes
12:58
Speaker 2: you is such a pleasure and it's nice to just again,
13:01
Speaker 2: I'm seeking this out. Isn't this interesting? What can it
13:05
Speaker 2: tell me about the world we live in or myself
13:07
Speaker 2: or just be entertaining And it's such a delight anything
13:11
Speaker 2: that can connect you to other people throughout history or
13:14
Speaker 2: other people right now, but just something that reminds you
13:18
Speaker 2: this feeling i'm having or this experience that I'm having
13:21
Speaker 2: is not uniquely mine, and I look at that as
13:23
Speaker 2: a good thing. Whether it's a good feeling or a
13:27
Speaker 2: bad feeling, I think it's important to remember that somebody
13:30
Speaker 2: else has felt it before. That makes me feel better,
13:34
Speaker 2: It makes me feel more connected to people, it makes
13:36
Speaker 2: me feel more empathetic. So I think that is one
13:39
Speaker 2: of the great things about art is that it's this
13:41
Speaker 2: like tangible proof that somebody felt this way before, and
13:44
Speaker 2: curiosity is like what draws you to it in this moment.
13:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like to think of curiosity as adding texture
13:51
Speaker 3: to my day, adding color.
13:53
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. And one of the researchers I spoke
13:56
Speaker 2: to for the book who researches curiosity, made the point
13:59
Speaker 2: that we often think of it as Wikipedia rabbit holes,
14:02
Speaker 2: but curiosity can also just be asking another person about
14:05
Speaker 2: their life or their experiences, and so you don't necessarily
14:08
Speaker 2: have to do it in that way if that's not
14:10
Speaker 2: how you want to or whatever the case may be. Like,
14:12
Speaker 2: you can satisfy your curiosity by just talking to somebody,
14:15
Speaker 2: And I think that's a really good reminder that there
14:18
Speaker 2: are interesting people and experiences all around us all the time,
14:22
Speaker 2: and like you could think about aging by reading this book,
14:25
Speaker 2: but you could also, you know, talk to a family
14:28
Speaker 2: member or a neighbor or a coworker. Like, there's so
14:31
Speaker 2: many ways to do curiosity, and I think just remembering
14:34
Speaker 2: other people are a great way to do it as well.
14:36
Speaker 2: Was one of the lessons I took away from this.
14:41
Speaker 3: When we're back, I read some questions from the audience
14:44
Speaker 3: about how community and values fit into a nice life.
15:00
Speaker 7: Every episode, if It's been a Minute MPRS What's Happening
15:04
Speaker 7: in Culture podcast starts by asking three questions, who, how, why?
15:08
Speaker 3: Now?
15:09
Speaker 7: If the culture's asking it, we're talking about it.
15:11
Speaker 8: At MPR.
15:12
Speaker 7: We stand for your right to be curious and indulge
15:15
Speaker 7: your cultural curiosity. Follow it's been a minute wherever you
15:18
Speaker 7: get your podcasts, and we'll break down the zeitgeisty topics
15:20
Speaker 7: that are filling your feed.
15:23
Speaker 4: This week.
15:23
Speaker 9: And first, President Trump dispatched jd Vance to peace talks
15:27
Speaker 9: in Switzerland. Now the US and Iran say they have
15:29
Speaker 9: a roadmap for peace. We'll have the latest on any
15:32
Speaker 9: overnight developments. Plus it's another week of primary elections. We'll
15:36
Speaker 9: discuss the results and what they mean for November. Listen
15:39
Speaker 9: to Up First every morning for the top three stories
15:41
Speaker 9: you need to not to start your day on the
15:43
Speaker 9: NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
15:48
Speaker 3: We actually have a couple questions here about the nice
15:51
Speaker 3: life and community. You know, in this age where a
15:55
Speaker 3: lot of people are lonely, what advice do you have
15:58
Speaker 3: for forging connections?
16:00
Speaker 2: And it starts with just deepening the relationships that you
16:03
Speaker 2: do have. Sometimes people feel like, oh, we have a connection.
16:06
Speaker 2: I think this could be something more, but they feel
16:08
Speaker 2: a little too shy to take that step further. And
16:11
Speaker 2: I think that's the part where I'm like, just give
16:14
Speaker 2: yourself permission to do that. You have to sometimes be
16:17
Speaker 2: willing to invite other people, and it won't always work out.
16:20
Speaker 2: Not everyone will be your person. But I think the
16:23
Speaker 2: more that you practice that, the less scary it feels
16:25
Speaker 2: and the easier it is, And you can just get
16:28
Speaker 2: better at striking up a conversation and realizing that the
16:31
Speaker 2: person on the other side will probably be very excited
16:33
Speaker 2: about it and very rarely will they be rude or mean,
16:36
Speaker 2: and if they are, it will be fine.
16:40
Speaker 3: Take Away three. As Rachel says in her book, a
16:43
Speaker 3: nice life is a shared life, one in which you
16:46
Speaker 3: forge authentic connections with interesting people and move through the
16:49
Speaker 3: world with generosity. So this is a really interesting question.
16:58
Speaker 3: It says some of the traits you describe for having
17:00
Speaker 3: a nice life sound women coded. Do you think there's
17:03
Speaker 3: a gendered element to a nice life and do men
17:06
Speaker 3: achieve it differently?
17:07
Speaker 2: That's a good question. I would say that I would
17:11
Speaker 2: describe my interests as very women coded, and they always
17:14
Speaker 2: have been, and I've never really apologized for that, because
17:17
Speaker 2: to me, these are inherently good things and everyone should
17:20
Speaker 2: pursue them. I hope that more men feel comfortable pursuing
17:24
Speaker 2: these things if they feel nice to them. And again,
17:27
Speaker 2: beauty can be defined however you want it to be.
17:29
Speaker 2: Curiosity can lead you wherever it leads you. It should
17:32
Speaker 2: be sort of this authentic experience. But I would hate
17:35
Speaker 2: for people to deprive themselves of art and connection with
17:39
Speaker 2: other people and good food and joy and play because
17:43
Speaker 2: they feel like it competes with their version of what
17:46
Speaker 2: their gender should be like. Honestly, that idea bums me
17:49
Speaker 2: out so much so that I hope that if men
17:51
Speaker 2: don't feel comfortable with this right now, that they stop
17:55
Speaker 2: and think, like, there's space for you here. And even
17:59
Speaker 2: if it feels a little hard at first, I think
18:01
Speaker 2: once you start to do it, it's such an immediate
18:04
Speaker 2: gratification that you kind of stop thinking about that stuff.
18:08
Speaker 3: I mean, I think some of the interests I expressed,
18:10
Speaker 3: or the examples I gave, are sort of masculine coded.
18:13
Speaker 3: I was out playing softball saw a falcon. I'm learning
18:19
Speaker 3: about Ulysses s Grant. Very true, right, there's a lot
18:23
Speaker 3: for you here. Whoever asked that question?
18:26
Speaker 2: I think it's the vulnerability in the community piece that
18:28
Speaker 2: maybe it's harder. But again, people really want to connect,
18:32
Speaker 2: they really want to make friends. They're hoping somebody will
18:34
Speaker 2: offer that, And so again, if that's what you want,
18:37
Speaker 2: just reach out again. There will be somebody there who's
18:40
Speaker 2: excited to hear from you.
18:42
Speaker 3: I think there's an element here of deciding what your
18:45
Speaker 3: values are and what makes a nice life for you.
18:48
Speaker 3: A lot of the ones that you laid out feel universal,
18:51
Speaker 3: you know, whether it's about connection and community or art
18:56
Speaker 3: and curiosity and beauty. But there might be others too. Service,
19:01
Speaker 3: for instance, is another one.
19:03
Speaker 2: Or family could be another world. Like, there's so many
19:06
Speaker 2: ways to define your nice life, and I think I
19:09
Speaker 2: tried to pick things that felt really universal across time
19:12
Speaker 2: and space. But I think this is really about making
19:15
Speaker 2: decisions that matter to you, that with intention, and you
19:18
Speaker 2: can't do that if you don't know what matters to you.
19:20
Speaker 2: So taking a step back and saying what is important
19:23
Speaker 2: to me? What do I want to be able to
19:24
Speaker 2: say that I've done in five years or ten years.
19:27
Speaker 2: What do I want to experience will take you very far.
19:30
Speaker 2: So that is a really good place to start and
19:32
Speaker 2: help you make decisions around how you want to live
19:35
Speaker 2: your life.
19:36
Speaker 3: All right, everybody, thank you so much, Thanks Rachel.
19:40
Speaker 2: Thank you.
19:49
Speaker 3: Okay, y'all, it's time for a recap. Take Away one.
19:52
Speaker 3: If you want to have a nice life, seek beauty.
19:55
Speaker 3: That doesn't necessarily mean buying anything. Look around you. What
19:59
Speaker 3: did you see today that was beautiful? Allow yourself to
20:02
Speaker 3: experience awe when you look at a bird or a flower,
20:05
Speaker 3: or an architectural marvel or a really old book. Take
20:09
Speaker 3: Away two. Another element of a nice life, according to Rachel,
20:13
Speaker 3: is curiosity. When you notice something beautiful or interesting or
20:17
Speaker 3: different in your day to day life and you fall
20:19
Speaker 3: down the rabbit hole a little bit. You can satisfy
20:22
Speaker 3: your curiosity at the library or on Wikipedia, or by
20:26
Speaker 3: watching historical documentaries, or just by learning about other people
20:29
Speaker 3: asking them questions. Take Away three. As Rachel says in
20:33
Speaker 3: her book, a nice life is a shared life. So
20:36
Speaker 3: get to know other people, build community, and remember these
20:40
Speaker 3: are just a starting point. Think about your own values
20:43
Speaker 3: and what'll make your life feel special. A little sparkly
20:46
Speaker 3: and a little extra. All right, that's our show. If
20:52
Speaker 3: Life Kit is part of your weekly ritual, make it
20:55
Speaker 3: official on the NPR app. You'll hear about every episode
20:59
Speaker 3: the moment. It's right. Just turn on notifications and will
21:02
Speaker 3: handle the rest. See you there. Download the MPR app today.
21:07
Speaker 3: This episode of Life Kate was produced by Margaret Serino.
21:10
Speaker 3: Our digital editor is Malica Greeb, and our visuals editor
21:13
Speaker 3: is c. J. Rikolon. Lauren Gonzalz is our executive producer,
21:17
Speaker 3: and Megan Kane is our senior supervising editor. Our production
21:20
Speaker 3: team also includes Andy Tagle, Claire Murie Schneider, and Sylvia Douglas.
21:25
Speaker 3: Engineering support comes from Peter Alena. Special thanks to Stephen Davey,
21:29
Speaker 3: Eva Rosenberg and Ben Brock Johnson at WBR. I'm Mariel Sagara,
21:35
Speaker 3: thanks for listening.
21:43
Speaker 4: Recently, cybersecurity researchers discovered a striking computer virus seemingly related
21:49
Speaker 4: to the conflict between the US and Iran over Iran's
21:53
Speaker 4: nuclear program. Everything about this thing screams special A cunning
21:59
Speaker 4: cyber weapon meant to do gaslight nuclear scientists. Listen to
22:02
Speaker 4: Plenty Money on the NPR app or wherever you get
22:05
Speaker 4: your podcasts.
22:08
Speaker 1: This week on Shortwave.
22:09
Speaker 3: With the price of jet fuel soaring, the hunt is
22:12
Speaker 3: on for other ways to power air travel sustainably. We
22:15
Speaker 3: are working with companies that take host anaerobic digested human
22:19
Speaker 3: sewage and turn that into jet fuel. How scientists are
22:23
Speaker 3: considering every possibility, even poop, to power the future of
22:26
Speaker 3: air travel.
22:27
Speaker 6: This week on Shortwave.
22:28
Speaker 1: Listen in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
22:33
Speaker 7: Every week on our series If You Can Keep It,
22:35
Speaker 7: we tackle the biggest political stories and why they matter
22:38
Speaker 7: for our democracy. Join me Jen white mondays on the
22:41
Speaker 7: One Aid podcast from WAMU and NPR