We are familiar with practice as a method for getting better at something. But what if this idea was only one part of the importance of practice? What if a key aspect of practice was learning how to fail? Professors Anna Mudde and Robert Piercey (University of Regina) discuss what practices are and how they are essential in renewal and innovation, ideally preventing traditions and our own personal identities from stagnating and becoming rigid.

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Host:
Dr Todd Mei

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Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transitioning Your Life
Martin Bunzl, author of Thinking while Walking
Hermeneutics in Real Life
Geoffrey Moore, author of The Infinite Staircase

Links Related to this Episode:
Anna Mudde (website)
Robert Piercey (website)

Reading as Philosophical Practice (Amazon)

colonialism (SEP)
Canada and the Remains of Indigenous Children (NPR)
practices and internal vs. external goods (IEP)

Alasdair MacIntyre (Wikipedia)
John Dewey and Pragmatism (SEP)
Maria Lugones (Wikipedia)
Charles Mills (Wikipedia)

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