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The Myth of the Linear Life (Bruce Feiler)
“A million Americans a week are quitting a job. This number is almost twice as high as it's ever been in history, not laid off. Not being fired. Quitting. That’s 50 million people a year. That's a th…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Being Transcendent (Geena Rocero)
“I believe certainly, I know now, after have going through this years and years of feeling ashamed of who I am, you know, internalizing the shame, how America sees trans people, gender in general, an…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
How to Change the World (Austin Channing Brown)
“When you are quite literally told that you are not human. What option do you have? What’s the other option other than to overthrow the system that is telling you you're not human, you know? And so t…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
The Making of On Our Best Behavior (my editor, Whit Frick)
“If I remember correctly, I think you ran as fast as you could to the thing that you're more comfortable with, which is other people's research, other people's ideas, showing the connection between h…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
What Makes Marriages Work (Stan Tatkin)
“One thing my work has taught me is how human interaction is a comedy of errors. People are making so many errors without knowing it. I think I'm making sense to you, but I'm not. I think I'm being c…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
The Best Strangers in the World (Ari Shapiro)
“But I now think about how wonderful it is that some of these radio stories that meant a lot to me that might have otherwise just disappeared, now do have a longer life. And you mentioned the fear of…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Knitting Together our Lives (Peggy Orenstein)
“Women spent so much time in the ancient world spinning, like they spent all their time, any spare moment. And spinsters were not bad, it wasn't bad to be a spinster the way we think of it, spinsters…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
A Fully Sensed Life (Gretchen Rubin)
“So one of the things I explored in life in Life in Five Senses was the value of boredom. Because when you're bored and when your mind is just kind of running free and trying to amuse itself, you'll …
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Reconceiving Our Lives (Maggie Smith)
“For people who have been in a long relationship and then it goes off the rails and ends, it’s a different kind of grief from say widower grief, right? Where maybe the relationship gets to stay intac…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Igniting Creativity (Ozan Varol)
“Ideas don't arrive with a bang. There is no parade. The big thing never screams that it's a big thing. The big thing actually at first looks quite small, but if your life is filled with constant noi…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago