Building a "personal culture" with Anna Gát
The beauty of an intellectual life is that it knows no class or geographical boundary. We are all born thinking, and as we advance in life we want to think more, better, and more correctly. [...] Only humans can learn about anything, anywhere, wherever they happen to be — only humans can take off in their mind, and reappear somewhere, anywhere else. As is the case with other important things in life, humans need guidance to develop this magic power even if we are all born with the possibility.
The journey of self-formation requires cultivating and understanding our own minds. Inspired by Anna's essay, The Sovereign Reader, we'll explore how to build your own "personal culture": the books, ideas, and people that will shape you and help create a life that is truly yours.
This is the fifth event in The Art of Being Human, a series by Imbue for the shared exploration of human questions in our technological age.
Anna Gát is the Founder-CEO and Editor in Chief of the salon platform Interintellect. She is a philosopher of art, dramaturg, and linguist by training. She writes the blog American Innocence, and hosts the podcast The Hope Axis.
Ashley Zhang is the Storyteller at Imbue, where she works on articulating a humanistic vision for our technological future. She hosts the Art of Being Human event series and writes the blog Soft Power, exploring what it means to live a flourishing human life in the age of AI.
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Event details:
5:30-6:00 Doors open
6:00-7:00 Fireside chat + audience Q&A
7:00-8:30 Mingling