Esther Perel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What?
Contempt.
Contempt.
What stands out when you say, what's the big deal?
Why you need to always overblow things?
You always have to make such a big drama.
Just chill, just relax, just keep it in perspective.
Just, just, just.
Meaning, what's wrong with you?
And what's wrong with you says, I have contempt.
Which is really the number one killer, actually.
Every biography is a betrayal of someone else.
You cannot tell your story without telling things about people who are in your story who didn't ask to be spoken about.
That's by definition.
I mean, this is the era where more people have written biographies than ever before.
Every person has a biography to write.
So a biography tells my story in the context of many relationships with others who didn't ask for the story to be told.
Every biography is a betrayal, a small one, but it's a betrayal.
You're like, oh, girl, get after it.
But you need to know that that's what we do.