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1KHO 951: The Lost Art Of Enjoying Everyday Life | Ian Bogost, The Small Stuff
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Children know something about enjoying life that adults have largely forgotten. A stick, a cardboard box, or even a marshmallow can become an entire world of discovery, while grown-ups increasingly measure experiences by their productivity or future payoff. Ian Bogost, author of The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life and a writer at The Atlantic, joins Ginny Yurich to explore how our pursuit of convenience, efficiency, and achievement has quietly stripped everyday life of some of its richest pleasures. From the surprising limitations of the famous marshmallow test to the disappearing rituals of paper tickets and ordinary human interactions, Bogost reveals how much we're…