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Professor Meghan Sullivan explains how she made asking questions into a career #TEDTalks

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  1. @deecooke311

    April 16, 2026 at 3:02 pm

    Love this! I philosophize constantly. Bern studying the great philosophers my whole life. Never thought of it as a potential profession! Very cool… I often considered a Think Tank. I read so much, voraciously. Something to ponder.

  2. @rebelcommander7starwarsjur922

    April 16, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    I’m a philosophy major and I don’t plan on double majoring what job opportunities can I have other than college professor?… The moment anyone answers that question other than none I will stop saying Philosophy is a useless major

    • @soalz7463

      April 16, 2026 at 3:15 pm

      Philosophy is not a useless major- what you can have it useless knowledge or rather- the inability to apply those skills in any job. Philosophy majors tend to outperform most other degrees in their respective field because the skills it teaches you far outweigh any direct job route- analytical thinking and argumentation is something much rarer than you might expect. That is what you leverage.

    • @thechocolatedonut7216

      April 16, 2026 at 3:46 pm

      I know a lot of philosophy majors go into law school.

    • @rebelcommander7starwarsjur922

      April 16, 2026 at 8:43 pm

      @the@thechocolatedonut7216ink the law degree supersedes the philosophy degree and although technically not a double major is in my book such a double major as in they have a degree from somewhere that says anything other than philosophy so for the purposes of this question I will not count it

    • @rebelcommander7starwarsjur922

      April 16, 2026 at 8:51 pm

      @soa@soalz7463an maybe if you count in job fields where the average person doesn’t have a degree and or when they have more than one degree. However are you seriously telling me that although there’s no direct job path as they get hired to do a wide range of jobs that someone with only a philosophy degree is likely to do better than someone with a different degree as in would likely on average be able find more jobs and better job opportunities? I’m not really willing to go that far sure if you have two degrees someone with a philosophy degree as there second might do better on average but you mean to tell me that as their only degree there likely to do better than most on average? I have a hard time believing this.

    • @narrativegatherer3128

      April 17, 2026 at 1:29 am

      You just poor bruh, admit it

  3. @jean-pierrearcoragi6313

    April 16, 2026 at 4:47 pm

    You get paid for it 😊

  4. @Christine-e7b

    April 16, 2026 at 5:37 pm

    Thank you ! ❤❤❤❤😊

  5. @dougewald243

    April 16, 2026 at 6:10 pm

    Philosophy is your rudder.

  6. @translationnotfound5274

    April 17, 2026 at 7:43 pm

    Most importantly you can not fully comprehend all of the intricacies of any answer.

  7. @romanuxt4829

    April 18, 2026 at 8:52 am

    Philosophy is the way of lazy people not to learn physics and math

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