you just had, a kind of natural knack at holding space for others? ML: Yes, well, thank you, Tami, for that kind introduction. I think it’s a good question. I think it’s been an ongoing process for me and I think there’s something about—I think I would probably emphasize listening. There’s something about a quality of listening that I really, when I think about it, it’s something that’s been with me for a long time. I think we can cultivate sort of deeper listening, but it’s something that for me, I think has really unfolded over the years. So I think a curiosity and an ability to sort of bracket my own sort of favorite theories an... posted on Dec 12 2020 (5,767 reads)

come from, or when, how did that start emerging? Oliver Burkeman:Well, a long time ago when I was still at school, I started to be the kind of person who was always looking around for systems of organizing my time. And I was always the person with the really beautifully designed exam-preparation timetables — whether I actually was any good at the exam preparation is a separate question, but, you know, the person with the multi-colored felt tip pens and all the rest of that. And I sort of, I think this — my more recent work and most recent book is sort of about the disillusionment with this kind of attempt to neatly organize and control time and life. But the sort of more... posted on Jan 31 2022 (5,207 reads)

in your early life, in your childhood. And, you know, I see you as much as a historian as a journalist. And I know, for example, that you are a grandchild of Holocaust survivors. So I don’t know if that is a place you would start, or what else occurs to you when you think about this — the early seeds of what you’re working on now. Gal Beckerman:Yeah, that’s fascinating to think about. [laughs] One finds interests and curiosities, and sometimes it’s difficult to sort of, to go deep enough beneath the surface to understand exactly where they’re emerging from. But I’ve always really been interested in the way that ideas sort of emerge and take over ... posted on Apr 18 2022 (6,521 reads)

wellness program. She is currently consulting for a task force for President Biden on vaccine hesitancy as a trauma symptom. And there is so much more to say about Lissa, some of which you can find on the bio for this call. But I'll close out her introduction by borrowing a word she used to describe herself, which made me laugh out loud when I came across it. But it so accurately captures her spirit, her mind, also her playful and luminous being. And that is to say that Lissa is sort of a unicorn -- being both a self-described skeptic and a mystic, someone who walks comfortably and firmly in the realms of both conventional medicine, and what we might call alternativ... posted on Aug 28 2023 (3,350 reads)

have access to are from college. TS: One of the things that I read about you is that you don’t think of yourself primarily as a storyteller, but more someone who thinks and experiences life in sensory experience. I wanted to understand more about that, experiencing life in sensory experience. What does that mean? How do you know which sensory experience is so scintillating that it lands in, is worthy of your writing? MS: I think I experience the world a lot like Polaroids sort of coming out of an old camera, so that tends to be how I write. If I take a walk, I might hear a bird that sounds like a typewriter key being tapped over and over or see the wind doing something... posted on Aug 10 2023 (2,877 reads)

than the other kids who just hated that stuff. I actually liked Sunday school, for example. But I also feel I had, when I look back, a kind of weird over-interest — or I was weirdly drawn toward the figure of Christ, I would say, from a very early age; I just found the story fascinating. Way before matters of whether God existed or anything like that, there was just something about this story that I found very strange. I still do find it very strange, actually. Based around this sort of tortured individual, literally, and I just found that compelling in some way. And I relate to it, too. Tippett:Say some more about that. Cave:Well, these days I relate to it more because... posted on Dec 6 2023 (3,039 reads)

where I wanted to start—which is, how in your experience, do you distinguish between fear and excitement? Elizabeth Gilbert: Wow, that’s such a great question! And you don’t have to be afraid to talk to me. [Laughs.] But I’m so touched that you were excited. They’re sometimes hard to distinguish, right? They have the same physical characteristics, at times. You get a little shaky, your stomach flips. I know in my own life that it tends to be [that] fear is a sort of propellant. So is excitement. [I think] the difference is that fear tends to make me want to run in the opposite direction, and excitement makes me want to run toward the thing. [Laughs.] S... posted on Sep 16 2014 (23,745 reads)

of how deeply we love. Here's my conversation with Patrick O'Malley: Patrick, to begin with, could you tell our listeners a little bit about how you came to write your new book, Getting Grief Right? Patrick O'Malley: I was a beginning therapist in 1979, fresh out of graduate school, and was working for a local family service agency. Just absolutely full of life—I'd finished school, it was a really an amazing time in the therapy world. Therapy was really sorting of beginning to take off and had not completely lost the stigma, but there was certainly more openness to it. So, I was well trained and training as I went, and taking on all sorts of interest... posted on Jan 17 2018 (62,173 reads)

by Anna Wolf for Dumbo Feather KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: Maria Popova has called Brain Pickings, her invention and labor of love, a “human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.” What she really delivers to hundreds of thousands of people each day is wisdom of the old-fashioned sort, presented in new-fashioned digital ways. She doesn’t merely curate, she cross-pollinates — between philosophy and design, physics and poetry, the scholarly and the experiential. We meet Maria Popova at 30, and explore her gleanings, thus far, on what it means to lead a good life — intellectually, creatively, and spiritually. MARIA POPOVA: You know,... posted on Jul 15 2015 (11,443 reads)

people. And Ken Wilber, in particular, has contrasted a lot of these models and shown that in many ways, they often say the same thing. We had a general sense of worldview that existed with hunter-gatherer societies. And when we made the leap to agrarian societies, the outlook and consciousness changed, and it happened again with the scientific Industrial Revolution. And many people believe that we're just starting to grow into the next stage. And that has profound implications in all sorts of domains, and I look in particular at the implications for organizations and management. TS: This next stage, how would you characterize it? FL: There's so many ways to talk abo... posted on May 13 2019 (7,404 reads)

or whatever—people who are often on the frontlines of suffering and bearing a burden that the rest of us are nicely avoiding in some way and often don’t even want to look at or acknowledge; and I just had such tremendous admiration for these people. They range, the people I got to be with, from domestic violence shelter workers, to hospice nurses, to international humanitarian aid workers, to parents, to people taking care of their parents, and to managers who were actually sort of caregiving their staff. Or even people who in friendships and relationships tend to take that role, the giver, the person who’s offering [and] sometimes having a hard time receiving. I j... posted on Apr 8 2022 (2,606 reads)

Brown: I could ask you as a parent and any other parent that's listening with a young child, you know, say a child over 3 but under 12. And if you just observe them and don't try and direct them and watch what it is they like to do in play, you often will see a key to their innate talents. And if those talents are given fairly free reign, then you see that there is a union between self and talent. And that this is nature's way of sort of saying this is who you are and what you are. And I'm sure if you go back and think about both of your children or yourself and go back to your earliest emotion-laden, visual, and visceral memories of what really gave you joy, you'l... posted on Jul 18 2014 (31,663 reads)

proud to know you and my life is richer because you came into it. When you were born, you know, the world became a better place and I'm proud to call you my son, even though," — and I don't know why I decided to add this part — "at times you can really be a huge pain in the ass [laughter]." And he looks up at me and he smiles and he says, "The feeling's mutual [laughter]." And, you know, suddenly kinship so quickly. You know, you're not sort of this delivery system, but maybe I return him to himself. But there is no doubt that he's returned me to myself. Ms. Tippett: I'm Krista Tippett, and this is On Being, from APM, Am... posted on May 4 2014 (20,156 reads)

a long decline after her mid-80s, she put it this way, poignantly: "We live too long and die too slowly." Partly as a result of accompanying her mother through these years, Jane Gross started, and still contributes to "The New Old Age" blog at The New York Times. Her hard-won wisdom on experiencing the new old age of our parents — and ourselves — is eloquent, practically useful, and blunt. JANE GROSS: It kicks up all the dust of childhood. Everybody sort of becomes who they were when they were 10. MS. TIPPETT: That's a terrible thought. MS. GROSS: I know. I know. I'm not even sure it's avoidable. You know, as a person who deals ... posted on Jul 2 2014 (27,860 reads)

rather than apart, um, what it means to change the world, which is something that can be done on a moment-by-moment basis, as well as in establishing organizations, uh, creating inventions, et cetera, et cetera. MS. TIPPETT: Courtney, what has rebellion come to mean for you, and where did you start with that? MS. MARTIN: Um, well, you know, I grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which is a really religiously conservative town. But I grew up with these progressive parents who were sort of a product of that social movement era. I grew up with stories about my parents taking over the student union and getting beer in the student union, which to them seemed very important, in addi... posted on May 8 2015 (16,076 reads)

follows is the transcript of an On Being interview with Krista Tippett in conversation with Brian Greene. June 1, 2017 Mr. Brian Greene: To me, the question of whether there are three dimensions or 10 dimensions is so captivating that it does impact my desire to live. And again, I don’t mean that in some melodramatic sense. If tomorrow we established that there are three dimensions of space, I’m not going to sort of jump off the Empire State Building. But what I mean is that these questions about the rock bottom structure of reality do inform my life. They are not esoteric scientific issues that I leave in the office when I go home at night. Krista Tippett, ho... posted on Dec 3 2018 (5,728 reads)

inevitable superstorms, and technology's endless reinvention. And a new generation is seeking wisdom and health amidst this reality. Mr. Andrew Zolli: Failure is intrinsic, healthy, normal, and necessary to most complex systems. We need systems that are better at sensing emerging disruption that encourage cooperation, rather than division. We need systems where a failure in one component of the system doesn't bring down every other component of the system. Those are really sort of a design brief for the 21st century. Ms. Tippett: I'm Krista Tippett. This On Being from APM, American Public Media. (Sound bite of music) Ms. Tippett: Andrew ... posted on Dec 5 2013 (22,698 reads)

or if you're in a change of life where your passions are shifting or you're not certain, and somebody says, “Well, it's easy to solve your life, just follow your passion.” [laughs] I do think that they have harmed you because it just makes people feel more excluded, and more exiled, and sometimes like a failure. MS. TIPPETT: Yes, exactly. MS. GILBERT: And it's a little bit like — gosh, I mean, even the word “passion” has this sort of sexual connotation that there's — I'm much more interested in intimacy. [laughs] And in growing a relationship than everything has to be setting your head on fire. And curiosity ... posted on Sep 5 2016 (16,708 reads)

of mine had taken a swing, and the bat slipped out of his hands, kind of rotated helicopter-style through the air, and struck me right between the eyes. Broke my nose, broke my ethmoid bone—which is the bone behind your nose, fairly deep inside your skull—shattered both eye sockets. I looked down, I had blood on my clothes, a couple classmates ran over, one of them literally took the shirt off his back and gave it to me to kind of plug up the blood coming from my nose. I was sort of unaware of how seriously I had been injured, so a couple of my classmates gathered me up and sort of helped me back down into the school. We walked down, we were on this hill outside of the sc... posted on Jan 2 2020 (9,404 reads)

language is everywhere, right? This language of trauma and traumatic stress has made its way into culture, movie, TV scripts, the news, public policy discussions. I’ve read a few different accounts of how you stumbled into this field. How do you trace the beginnings of your research into traumatic stress? van der Kolk:Well, it starts in a very pedestrian way, I mean, coming from a generation that it was generally recommended that people have their own heads examined, which I think is sort of a good idea if you try to help other people. So psychoanalysis was the way to do that, back then, and the only program that paid for that was the VA. So I went to work for the VA for the same ... posted on Feb 10 2022 (7,215 reads)