"cambridge university graduation day another group of brilliant beautiful talented young people prepared to go out into the world that's rich and famous wealth and power the site of the mic phyllis with joy alternatively as they filed through the courtyards of their ancient colleges to" "receive their degrees something about their achievements in the prospects might lead us to debilitating since though women as bright as we should be northridge beautiful talented and successful that behavior on this special day might quite unintentionally serve to due" "process if we struck by such feelings of inadequacy there was one philosopher to thing we should turn his name cousin shows do more time we shall contain was really most unusual and lovable of philosophers i think for one reason in particular" "he seems to have some what makes us feel bad about ourselves and his book tries to make us feel better i think i was about three main areas of what you call inadequacy firstly a kind of board really inadequacy the sense that we" "aren't comfortable with our bodies that we feel awkward about secondly via an article see that we must feel when we feel that opposite charging stock customs inhabits i'll be disapproved of unsightly intellectual inadequacy the feeling that which is discovers we should be and for all these three areas" "nothing came up behind practical simple and i think they're helpful solutions at the summit of the widget hill in the heart of rooms franz some thirty miles east of portland stanza hanson consul with use onto oak forests and pay for you" "in the sixteenth century it was michelle detained scope mccain's born fifteen thirty three and from the outside his clawson achievements might seem more likely to intimidate us when rescuers from a sense of inadequacy he's a nobleman lawyer" "a friend of the king of france and twice manner reporter but at the age of thirty eight wanting decided to retire to his counsel to spend the rest of his life here reading reflecting the mighty at first he didn't know what to write about" "pretty crunchy hit upon a revolution really did to write a big book on the subject he was uniquely placed to understand he set out to tell us exactly what it was like to be he showed them to when one has that will turn it in a casa like this" "and that he was the matter of bob dole for two terms and he's a philosopher that one might come across thousands of prejudices that one might imagine sc the kind of man he was a kind of things that will find in his book but i" "think what's remarkable and for me deeply moving and charming about his work most famous work the essays uh... is that actually its contents but nothing like at the typical philosophy book that note saying wanted in this book to as worried role the whole portrayed that" "we have what human beings are most books didn't seem to obtain to really reflect human experience they edited out all sorts of aspects what what they wanted to do is to bring these aspects back in which is why he spends an awful lot of time in his work talking" "about the kinds of things butler's philosophy books leave out for instance the penis he tells us that he wants to talk a lot about his penis every one of my members each as much as another makes me myself among makes me" "more properly a man and that's one buyer to the public my portrayed complete and it was known to install in his essays insert into uh... on normal conception of what human being is all these aspects of our actually part of our reality but never get mentioned" "in philosophy books meeting for he was surrounded by the romo mortals they didn't give space to what mister mosser tree-lined and this can be discussed self-hatred when we fail to make the grade which is one more time spent much time in his book telling us ordinary" "everyday things about himself to encourage us to accept the ordinary in assumes it's why he tells us for example about his bowel movements and the eat so far steal from bites his fingers tribute perhaps but a reminder that there are many humdrum" "but never the less acceptable sites to human nature as he wrote the most terrible involvement of our afflictions is to despise heartburn beans because most in compliance enough so much closest things we didn't hear about impotence and farting" "it's easy to field in becoming a friend someone far from the u_s_ fear starched image of a philosopher him and as one might fit into friends i was told to visit his schachter further to foster the sensible most personal relationship i formed" "maintained works metallic at one end of his consul on the ground floor was a chapel he had the acoustics organized so that he could hear masking some is he lay in bed upstairs it's moving to come here to see how one changed at all these" "here is the very talent which maintains describing his book hundreds of years ago it reinforces the sense of personal identification reduce of his essays tend to have meeting of the sensation of falling asleep so much the could it have the bells of wisconsin wrong in the middle of the" "nights to break so stop the pleasure of drifting back to sleep" "but it was really the top of the town right come to see for them to him have his stocking which he laughed described in detail" "it's the perfect place for bookish man they used to be a collection of a thousand books arranged in a sense of colorado or there was room to paint the best thoughts came to him about he said and views on to the darkness" "but so this might look like a perfect people promote intellectual morton remained extraordinarily down to a much of what he tells us has an almost homespun wasn't it to be completed it's because we trust maintain as a friend" "a man with the courage to speak the great truths with simplicity and with on the stand maintains a highly unusual philosopher and in one respect particularly most philosophers up until more time had pointed out but having a mind kindly" "disturb happiness but its recent which gives us the best chance of fulfillment montagne time that equation on its head and built a philosophy out of pointing out the extent to which we have problems precisely because we have recent because" "we have minds in the first problem with having a mind to contain stored is that it makes for people to relations with all bodies unlike other animals were a few disgusted by all physical selves we think we to factual grown soon untruth" "we develop teaching to sort of sexual helps an embarrassment maintained observed many people around him affected by physical chain king you're a man who killed himself after letting out a cacophony of funds at a banquet he met a woman who was so embarrassed to chew in public" "but she always eight behind a curtain and another man u order that he be buried in his undercurrents the fear that anyone should have received his penis you whatever member to blindfold the undertaken static content will tell you what the problem once it's because the boating serenity mentioned" "in polite company let alone in philosophy books we think it is embarrassing shameful he coaches to accept as in in the way for quick fact that we all hard animal we have to see how much we have in common with the creatures of the" "farmyard kings and philosophers shipped he reminded us and so do the ladies" "nothing struggles of course a working farm sandhya plenty of opportunity to look at them will take him away from his observation of animals with an interesting point he said they often surpass disinterest in you believe that animals are many ways" "paul clifford and we are animals a more natural dead bodies and we are they don't have an embarrassment shine this is the shames that we have to have a much more natural relationship and what tiki striking sapir within the sixteenth century is a philosopher who saying animals are many" "ways on equal an extremely striking thing to say and i think a very touching thing to say is very ended by them placement center this philosophy sold in two thousand plus a kind of wisdom which i believe we should imitate" "meeting wasn't leaving the senate place in the farmyard two courageous to help us to grow more acceptable to ourselves we should accept on bodies with good grace and a touch of humor it's not true and spends too" "it's a simple but there's no reason why things should be complicated in order to be true and it's only the first of many blunt but helpful truths dismissed down to uh... the philosophers has to teach us" "just a problem and tenfold because it's just a few changes all parties it's also very big problem because it leads us to feel carrot-and-stick what's right homes that vision on other people every society has its ideas about what is normal" "what's normal to be tool when i will say if you straight from these in some way who quickly liable to come up against all sorts of narrow minded person prejudice to be accused of being weird made fun of worse" "imagine for example but your favorite foods don't enter crop up on the typical british menu electricity per second what more do you think of the reasons i think that that's a different might come but simply from around the world here that some" "goats heads fits into the bag had been bigfoot critical that is seven thousands of american and here we've got some uh... chicken feet there's uh... china reflecting that something that you might like to say reinstall that but some" "since the within twelve americans we'll divide the world at least in normal and i found one it about concert report no one american that doesn't much matter we just put food is a state that's what you have to have someone" "the clinton had graphic evidence to hand of how people sometimes behavior towards those who don't show up at customs some forty years the formal transfers columbus sailed to the new worlds holding hands they repeat just in the camps" "to show him how the spanish colonists behave towards those who they found distorted the natives in enormous numbers through meetings and lifetime the numbers of native south americans dropped from eighty two ten million unusually for european of his day montagne was supported by the communists" "unidentified home with the indians the argued that the intolerance the conquistadors insuring was everywhere people constantly russian decide what is normal and we'll just have no and prosecute those who don't fit" "prejudiced the indians have encountered not all liable to face in far less catastrophic wings the day we strain from the customs of often countries what should we do if we encounter the prejudices of office to traveling either in reality or in our minds" "we should go out to greet the darfur succeed for well and that we will seek to what one society judges to give me a another society michael present job tribunal at that every country has its prejudices joanna the trouble between countries uses the" "great anyone prejudice it's not just the travel broadens remind it in a booster to see more clearly how narrow your process myself meeting was no bland multicultural strength he was in singapore cultures on scooters one another canisters attacking the way the people decide what is good and bad" "on the basis of habit small companies but the more global perspective on our behavior we will grow more accepting not only about this but also of aspects of ourselves blameless constraining identities the citizens of the world demographics well he doesn't see people the speed judgmental which makes us feel" "inadequate another area in which many of us feeling on top of scratches the intellectual the paypal since the we simply artist clitoris we should be this is confident he's calling part of cambridge university this is a photo of me graduating a few years ago" "had a lot more half and then i do now these supposedly some of the separates people in the whole country i say supposedly because once you start looking at a moment like cambridge university through maintain signs liquidity begin to see things in a rather different way" "intense day needed certain things to be deemed clever first and foremost at university degree cutting owner of the palace but how how much are society and more trains and associates intelligence with academic qualifications montagne had some blunt words on the matter" "to him it seemed that most university graduates were despite the downs in fancy certificates in his words just blockades that's part one he wasn't being pure i'll just insisting that the out with symbols of intelligence are often different from" "the reality the kind of intelligence that same is really cute he called withstand importantly he said that one could be wise without ever having gone to univeristy like this all that you need in order to be wise to court" "mississippi humility modesty an acceptance of your intellectual limitations what people don't always need to know everything they can also accept that many events are out of that control except the limitations as much of their minds because of their bodies" "montagne many people around this shot who was simple common with no formal education whatsoever long acquaintance with them persuade him that these people were often fall once at the university graduates hinton certainly didn't think that in the name was useless" "he was simply observing the many people who go to university onto any happier ones and those who did and for my own experience i think you may have a point intensity telling us is this the complex like this you will get very good at remembering what the facts you will pick up a lot of" "information but you were necessary be able to apply it to a life tonight certainly missed out on manning lessons of life if i was designed my ideal curriculum i think i would take away from obtains book and say that actually many of the most important topics are covered herein" "should be i think topics like how-to live well happening with other people performance anxieties have to do with death even banal questions or potentially book which is like how to end the relationship um... these are not the kind of questions that would encouraged to ask here and away perhaps" "we should be coming back is also give me a chance to put some of morton's points tour of the food eating figure from my past the master of my old college twist in the country often has this out" "quick which he says he's looking out the window destructive says many of the people that i see plowing the soil uh... around my chapter are in fact that it is better happier and why is a than people who i've known in the university's" "parents um... would you make of that when i made a dramatic methods of both present job satisfaction register on the dole and i think that matt is one of the plagues of our society that we will have to have reporter dying at twenty seven" "byron nothing and later in the uh... a ditch throughout february and so on i don't buy that but i will have another aspect of the pictures that we might be happier at sporting goods frontrunner that everybody network" "here's what i did it so i think gold box a mocking help that feeding the people who graduate from him dot happier will have to never be interested to work it's difficult to do it on saturday separate but i like the budget" "and i think that they've been brought back for me and i think the great great go out there back nonstop equip a pressure cooker meeting of course recognized that some people it over the mountains it's just the way that our society identifies the which is wrong" "in particular there's something wrong with the exam system it rewards the wrong things the name robert and wisdom the paper this morning is an examination in waste so what was an examination that mccain could approval the like how could one test for wisdom" "rather than its pale shatter learning i had a good designing such a paper and mister kendrick let me subject to some of the students students must also five of the following questions factual accuracy welders are will not really impress the examiners you made out stock right" "mills questions like what should one do when anxious what is a good parent how can one tells if one is in love or infatuated should we worry what other people think most you consider a cannot trust six extermination scanned winston" "that perhaps they should speak the education system today although at the one in sixteenth century france intense time makes some people feel priest you pitch when the arms well making other people feel very classy when perhaps for a long time" "wanting to do want to do away with the distinction between intelligence and circuit city secure wants to adjust the way that we may need to that distinction it's quite possible to be able to write a pretty pretty interesting" "remember what's facts presenting our conclusion not good ones one of the same time might lack with these intellectual disciplines and yet to be very ones cheering idea we take away from montagne is that academic qualifications are not the sole or even the chief determinants of intelligence there are ways of being" "clever top universities don't recognize and ways of being stupid and if that doesn't help the siva feelings of intellectual inadequacy provoked by people with impressive to greens maintain had one final tape we should take a moment to imagine them sitting on the twenty as he noted" "even on the highest thrown we all seated still upon our policies predict when one lesson from that time it's about the dangers of being intellectually arrogant and wanting when he was writing in his study and one way of trying to keep his" "own feet on the grounds he had a set of fifty seven short inscriptions culled from the classics in the bible painted up on the scene so that when he was writing he could look up in the reminders some of the central truths" "who have opposed it says have never seen a man who thinks he's winds you have more to hopeful from a management than from him never hit is not a question for much like it says cannot be wines of the necessary" "would be wise in moderation everything's too complicated meant to be able to understand and the happiest life is to be without food my mum and muffins units foreign to me the man who thinks he knows does not yet known what mandy's" "white women to a self with worries that are outside to control there is nothing certain that uncertainty nothing more miserable proud meetings in fighting a signal to be humiliated by aspects of ourselves all bodies are idiosyncrasies a lack of formal education" "within fatah dinner eat extends never read a book and still quite fully human what makes me ten different is that his message stems from a man we can't trust is a friend and admire is a role model one of the first time only philosophers with her reassuring" "down to uh... plenty quantities to be a good human being" "ad"