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The misconception that sunders flourishing (part two)
A two-part essay on the most debilitating mental model of flourishing and how we reclaim a more robust conception.
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Ryan McGranaghan
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The misconception that sunders flourishing (part one)
A two-part essay on the most debilitating mental model of flourishing and how we reclaim a more robust conception.
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Ryan McGranaghan
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An evening of encountering flourishing
On December 12, the first in-person Flourishing Salon at the National Academy of Sciences
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Ryan McGranaghan
Unsettledness: A philosophy for democracy and flourishing
We need a philosophy of unsettledness—a lens that embraces messiness, impermanence, and paradox as sources of vitality and possibility
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Ryan McGranaghan
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Flourishing Together: Toward a Collective Philosophy of Science
A conversation with a foremost scientist sparks a re-appraisal of the production of knowledge and its role in how we live well together
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Ryan McGranaghan
What does poetry work in us?
Igniting a conversation about the relationship between poetry, science, and flourishing with a modern master, change-maker, and wise and winsome voice
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Ryan McGranaghan
Lessons from a life in anthropology and the conversational nature of reality
A mind-widening conversation and ruminations on how it informs how we live now
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Ryan McGranaghan
The Flourishing Commons
Musings on flourishing across science, writing, design, complexity, music and sometimes an accompaniment to Origins Podcast and the Flourishing Salons to create a community of listening and living
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