15/12/2025
🌟 Our next guest on Lives Well Lived is Tim Minchin — composer, lyricist, comedian, actor, writer, and one of the sharpest creative minds of our time. 🌟
Some conversations entertain you; others shift something quietly inside. Our episode with Tim does both.
We start with his beloved songs — White Wine in the Sun and Come Home, Cardinal Pell — and move quickly to what interests me most: how knowledge shapes the way we live. For Tim, the vastness of the universe brings not dread but gratitude and wonder — and listening to him speak about that was one of my favourite moments. 
We explore his Nine Life Lessons, why “you don’t have to have a dream,” and how much of a life is luck versus choice — which leads naturally into free will, responsibility, and happiness. At one point Tim compares happiness to… or***ms. I challenge him, of course, and we end up talking about why purpose matters so deeply.
That brings us to AI: how it removes some of our purposes, and why Tim insists that whatever AI creates, it isn’t art. Peter pushes back with the example of photography, and suddenly we’re in a rich conversation about creativity, technology, and meaning.
And finally — in true Lives Well Lived style — we talk about aging, purpose, and how life looks at 50, at 70, and beyond.
It’s funny, thoughtful, a bit philosophical — very Tim Minchin.
I think you’ll enjoy it.
Link to the episode below 👇
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