Plus, two award-winning authors on the meaning of home
| November 30, 2023 | | PODCAST | Finding Your Path | "You don’t have a career," says Bruce Feiler, author of The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World. "You have a series of ways that you work that suit who you are at the time." The linear story that we've been telling — the corporate ladder, the career path, the resume — is a limiting one that might be hurting our ability to build fulfilling working lives. Feiler is joined by Kevin Kelly, co-founder of WIRED and author of Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier for a conversation moderated by journalist Joanne Lipman. Together, they unpack the work myths that are no longer serving us and give practical tips for embracing nonlinearity and building a work life that is meaningful and tailored to you. Listen | | VIDEO | Migration and the Meaning of Home | Two writers well-versed in holding joy and pain simultaneously, Javier Zamora and Jamie Ford use storytelling to process their individual histories as well as their generational inheritances, both traumatic and beautiful. Zamora’s migration journey took him from El Salvador to the United States by foot at age nine, which he recounts in his memoir Solito. Ford’s great-grandfather is mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from China to San Francisco in 1865 and inspires Ford’s numerous novels, including The Many Daughters of Afong Moy. “You can turn your pain into your superpower and unleash it on the page, and create an empathy-enlarging experience for the reader,” says Ford. “That, in one small way, is helping us move away from the darkness.” Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of “Today with Hoda and Jenna” on NBC, moderates this raw and healing conversation about finding home, what it means to be American, and the power of literature. Watch | | INTERVIEW | How to Talk to Your Teen | “Teenagers are eager to engage with adults who treat them as the perceptive, interesting, and complex people that they are,” says psychologist Lisa Damour. “When teens bring problems or upset feelings our way, they want one response above all else: empathy.” We asked Dr. Damour, who spoke at the 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival, for advice on having conversations with the kids in our lives, tips for facilitating a healthy relationship with social media, and some context around the alarming rise in youth mental health issues. Read |
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