Elizabeth Weingarten
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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To research this book, interviewed scientists, artists, religious scholars, historians, philosophers, talked to a professor with a mysterious illness who devoted her life to figuring out how to live better in uncertainty. A woman who was paralyzed in a car accident, who was rediscovering her identity.
the grandson of a very famous public figure who was determining how to live his life and who he was outside of that shadow of fame, renowned teachers of Zen Buddhism, psychedelic therapy researchers, so many more. And I'll just say finally, just to give folks a sense of how this journey unfolds, divided the book into three big parts.
the grandson of a very famous public figure who was determining how to live his life and who he was outside of that shadow of fame, renowned teachers of Zen Buddhism, psychedelic therapy researchers, so many more. And I'll just say finally, just to give folks a sense of how this journey unfolds, divided the book into three big parts.
the grandson of a very famous public figure who was determining how to live his life and who he was outside of that shadow of fame, renowned teachers of Zen Buddhism, psychedelic therapy researchers, so many more. And I'll just say finally, just to give folks a sense of how this journey unfolds, divided the book into three big parts.
So part one is all about how the search for easy answers can fail us. And we look at why we crave certainty, how our current culture has exacerbated our desire for certainty and how it really hurts our minds, our bodies and societies. Part two is all about the rewards of committing to our questions and curiosity.
So part one is all about how the search for easy answers can fail us. And we look at why we crave certainty, how our current culture has exacerbated our desire for certainty and how it really hurts our minds, our bodies and societies. Part two is all about the rewards of committing to our questions and curiosity.
So part one is all about how the search for easy answers can fail us. And we look at why we crave certainty, how our current culture has exacerbated our desire for certainty and how it really hurts our minds, our bodies and societies. Part two is all about the rewards of committing to our questions and curiosity.
And that's where I'm sharing a lot of stories of folks who show us what are the benefits of being able to live and love the questions and how did their lives transform when they changed their relationships to uncertainty. And finally, in part three, talking about how to start your own questions practice, ways to begin living and loving questions yourself.
And that's where I'm sharing a lot of stories of folks who show us what are the benefits of being able to live and love the questions and how did their lives transform when they changed their relationships to uncertainty. And finally, in part three, talking about how to start your own questions practice, ways to begin living and loving questions yourself.
And that's where I'm sharing a lot of stories of folks who show us what are the benefits of being able to live and love the questions and how did their lives transform when they changed their relationships to uncertainty. And finally, in part three, talking about how to start your own questions practice, ways to begin living and loving questions yourself.
And that's where we get into some evidence-backed tools to develop that practice and to help navigate your own experience in uncertainty. So I'll pause there. I'm sure we'll chat about many different parts of that.
And that's where we get into some evidence-backed tools to develop that practice and to help navigate your own experience in uncertainty. So I'll pause there. I'm sure we'll chat about many different parts of that.
And that's where we get into some evidence-backed tools to develop that practice and to help navigate your own experience in uncertainty. So I'll pause there. I'm sure we'll chat about many different parts of that.
What a great question. So this was indeed the book that made me interested in learning everything I could about behavioral science. And the reason was it was really found this book really at the right time. I was At that time, I was at the think tank New America. I had recently started a policy program focused on global gender equality issues.
What a great question. So this was indeed the book that made me interested in learning everything I could about behavioral science. And the reason was it was really found this book really at the right time. I was At that time, I was at the think tank New America. I had recently started a policy program focused on global gender equality issues.
What a great question. So this was indeed the book that made me interested in learning everything I could about behavioral science. And the reason was it was really found this book really at the right time. I was At that time, I was at the think tank New America. I had recently started a policy program focused on global gender equality issues.
And the idea was to do original research and journalism to explore underreported global gender equity issues. And Iris was going to be coming to New America for a panel. And so somebody shared her book with me so I could read about her and her work.
And the idea was to do original research and journalism to explore underreported global gender equity issues. And Iris was going to be coming to New America for a panel. And so somebody shared her book with me so I could read about her and her work.
And the idea was to do original research and journalism to explore underreported global gender equity issues. And Iris was going to be coming to New America for a panel. And so somebody shared her book with me so I could read about her and her work.
And it was one of those situations where I had been, that the problems and challenges that I had been trying to address through journalism, all of a sudden I saw her writing about those challenges in a totally different way. And introducing me to an entirely different toolkit for addressing particularly gender equity challenges in the workplace.