Jan Jachimowicz
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370 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 29 Sep
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What was I working on?
What was going on in my life?
I think we often make the inference that there must be something wrong.
But perhaps I'm under duress.
Maybe I'm really stressed.
Maybe something is happening in my life that makes it really difficult for me to experience passion.
So I think using that as an opportunity to diagnose, perhaps even to experiment.
And if none of that works and really you give up on a passion and you don't know what comes next, to give yourself the space to understand it is okay if it's really painful because what has happened is a big loss.
And after their loss, something else could happen and that provides space and opportunity for the next thing.
Thank you so much, Shankar, for having me.
Yeah, let me back up a little bit.
So um both of my parents grew up in Warsaw, Poland, in the aftermath of World War Two, and they were Jewish.
In nineteen sixty eight there was economic stagnation and crises that led to a student protest.
In response, the Polish government led an anti Semitic campaign.
Jews faced a lot of hostility.
My father's mother, um so my grandmother on my father's side, she worked at the University of Warsaw, and one day she walked into her office and she tried to open the door to her office with her key, and the key didn't work anymore.
She asked the janitor what was going on, and the janitor said that her lot had been changed because she was no longer allowed to be there.
And so, in response to the discrimination and hostility, the vast majority of Jews ended up leaving Poland, including both of my parents and my extended family, they all left.
Both of my parents ultimately settled in Germany.
That's where my father ended up getting a job.
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