227. The Counter-culture of Commitment - A Conversation with Pete Davis

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🗓️ 3 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, we are re-releasing a conversation with Pete Davis. In 2018, Pete Davis was graduating from Harvard Law School and was chosen to give a commencement address that ended up going unexpectedly viral, having now been viewed over 30 million times.The thesis of Pete’s speech was that our culture has entered what he calls “infinite browsing mode”—with so many options to choose from, and devices that present those options to us literally endlessly—we can become paralyzed by choice and inad...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone this is Jennifer Finlason Fife and I would like to invite you to join me at
0:05.6	Restore a Faith Matters Gathering that is happening September 5th through the 7th
0:10.8	at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy, Utah.
0:14.0	This year, I'm going to be talking about how to talk to your kids about sex and perhaps by extent
0:20.4	in how to talk to ourselves about sex.
0:22.7	This is a challenging topic, something very near and dear to my heart
0:27.0	and very much related to the work that I do in the LDS community.
0:30.5	So I'll be speaking about that. And also I'll be speaking about that and also I'll be doing a meet and greet where I think for an hour around the lunch break I'll be available to say hello to anybody that wants to come in and say hello to me.
0:46.3	So it's just an exceptional event.
0:48.3	This is the third year.
0:50.1	I look forward to it every year.
0:51.8	There's just exceptional speakers, amazing art, poetry,
0:56.1	inspiring music. It really is just so uplifting and you meet so many like-minded wonderful people as well.
1:04.1	So I hope that you will join me this year.
1:07.6	I hope you'll come in and say hello
1:09.0	if you have a moment and thanks so much everybody.
1:13.0	Hey everybody, today we're going to re-release an episode with Pete Davis.
1:16.0	This is one of my all-time favorite episodes and one of my all-time favorite books.
1:20.0	And I'm so excited because Pete Davis will be joining us this year at Restore.
1:24.0	So listen to the episode, I know you're going to love it, and please join us at Restore to hear more from Pete Davis.
1:28.2	Hey everyone, this is Tim Chavez from Faith Matters.
1:32.2	In 2018, Pete Davis was graduating from Harvard Law School
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