John Stuart Mill's midlife crisis came at 20 when he realized that if he got what he desired he still wouldn't be happy. Art and poetry (and maybe love) saved the day for him. In this week's episode, philosopher Kieran Setiya of MIT talks about his book Midlife with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Setiya argues we can learn from Mill to help deal with the ennui to which so many midlifers succumb--along with regrets for roads not taken and wistfulness for what could have been. Setiya argues that a well-lived life needs fewer projects and more pursuits that don't have goals or endpoints. He explains why past mistakes can turn out to be good things and how lost chances can help us appreciate the richness of life.
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Michael McCullough on the Kindness of Strangers
Scott Newstok on How to Think Like Shakespeare
Gary Shiffman on the Economics of Violence
Don Boudreaux on Buchanan
Matthew Crawford on Why We Drive
Michael Blastland on the Hidden Half
Jay Bhattacharya on the Pandemic
Katherine Levine Einstein on Neighborhood Defenders
Branko Milanovic on the Big Questions of Economics
Emily Oster on the Pandemic
Daniel Haybron on Happiness
Virginia Postrel on Textiles and the Fabric of Civilization
Steven Levitt on Freakonomics and the State of Economics
Rob Wiblin and Russ Roberts on Charity, Science, and Utilitarianism
Fredrik deBoer on the Cult of Smart
Dwayne Betts on Reading, Prison, and the Million Book Project
Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of Democracy
Zena Hitz on Lost in Thought
Agnes Callard on Aspiration
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