2021-05-18
33 分钟Ted audio collective, you are listening to how to be a better human.
I'm your host, Chris Duffy.
Okay, so our show is called how to be a better human.
So one question that I've tried to ask every person that I've gotten to interview for this show is, what's something that's made you a better human?
And the answers that I've gotten from them have been very varied, from a person in their life to an idea, to a book, to a movie, to all sorts of other possibilities.
Here is how today's guest, philosophy professor Christopher Robichaux, here's how he answered.
Oh, that's a really great question.
I'm going to say dungeons and dragons, which I don't know if you get a lot on this show, but the reason I'm going to say this is because from a very early age, dungeons and dragons socialized me.
It socialized me and taught me how to develop good friendships.
It taught me how to play, it taught me how to imagine.
It taught me how to take up different perspectives.
It taught me how to problem solve.
It taught me how to read in a lot of ways.
And it taught me how to deal with uncertainty and to, and to deal with the consequences of my decision.
And all of that was while having a blast and fighting trolls and dragons and all the rest of it.
And so I think dungeon dragons means different things for different people.
But for me, it was an arena in which I developed certain traits that I've leaned on my entire life.
So Dungeon dragons, playing Dungeon dragons with good friends has made me a better person.
Christopher has taken that idea and that passion, and hes made a career out of teaching others ethics and philosophy using d and d and pop culture.
He picks apart thorny moral questions, using everything from zombie apocalypse simulations to superhero narratives.