Bruce Feiler

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Good Life Project · Why Rituals Matter More Than You Know, And How to Design Your Own | Bruce Feiler · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

We go through a disruptor every 12 to 18 months, and one in 10 of those is a lifequake.

The average length of a lifequake is five years.

That means we're spending half of our lives in transition, and we need these kinds of celebrations.

So part of the problem that we have and part of what I'm trying to do in A Time to Gather is, first of all, rebrand this.

So birth, coming of age, marriage, death, that doesn't really describe it because part of it is that every ritual contains every other ritual.

So that if you're getting married, you're saying goodbye to an old phase of life.

If you're having certainly a first child, you're saying goodbye.

So that's why I've renamed them as welcoming, becoming, loving, mourning, and what I call the fifth ritual, the missing ritual, renewing, for anything that we're renewing.

I mean, I know people hiring doulas for the end of life, but also doulas for birth, also doulas for shutting down a company, or doulas for a job loss.

That is also a mournful ritual.

but also something that has the opportunity for rebirth and renewal.

So that's the first thing, is that every ritual contains every other ritual, right?

The second thing I think worth saying here is kind of what do they do, right?

And so rituals, so let's just put a little bit of nomenclature on this.

So a ritual is a shared unnecessary act of

That makes us feel at home.

Okay.

So that's my definition.

It's an act because it's a doing.

It's not a talking.

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