George Bonanno
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364 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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And being a father, being a parent is not easy.
And there were times when I just thought I wished that my father was alive, despite the difficulties we had when he was alive.
I felt this would be different now.
I'm a different person.
He would undoubtedly be a different person as well.
And so I began to talk with him in the elevator in my building.
I live in an old building in New York and the elevator is quite slow.
So I felt safe in the elevator because nobody would see me.
And I knew when that door was going to open because the elevator would stop slowly and there was a pause before the door opened.
So I began to talk with my father and I found this very comforting to have these conversations with him.
You know, I might be, you know, be asking about, you know, one of my children or, you know, how having children changes the way you think.
Or, you know, I was noticing things say I would be much more carefree until I became a parent and I was worrying about money.
And I would say something, you know, Dad, I know you are very concerned about money.
You know, this is really hard, you know, and I would really just talk to them about it.
And obviously he'd never answered back.
But it was more like I would imagine how he was responding and just be able to tell him this.
It's a matter of really working out what is the right way to behave in this situation?
What's the right way to cope in that situation?
And that led me to this idea of what we call behavioral flexibility.
It's a set of skills that we see in people that solve this problem.
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