What is it like to be a philosopher? Rebecca Goldstein edition

Here, and quite interesting I thought.   I like this exchange in particular:

Q: If you had to, how would you define philosophy? Why should people study it?

A: It’s the attempt to get our bearings, as broadly and systematically as possible. People should study it because everybody’s trying, as best they can, to get their bearings.

One of the striking things about people is they can have their "bearings" while having contradictory and unsystematic and often clearly false views!