Book of the Day

'Swan Song' sees Princess Diana through her brother’s eyes | NPR's Book of the Day

Being told all the way through your school years that you are somehow less than the rest of the people in your class must have had a devastating effect on her... How could you not feel that you were somehow inadequate? And it was only after she left school where she truly flourished.

Book of the Day

'Swan Song' sees Princess Diana through her brother’s eyes | NPR's Book of the Day

Being told all the way through your school years that you are somehow less than the rest of the people in your class must have had a devastating effect on her. I also come to the conclusion, you know, which is fairly it was very obvious that she had this incredible burden from this criticism from teachers about being at the very low end in each subject she studied. How could you not feel that you were somehow inadequate?

TED

The Three Words That Saved My Life | Blake Mycoskie | TED

Everything I had done for the first 48 years was an attempt to earn my worth. Becoming a championship tennis player, starting multiple businesses, building Toms and becoming the poster child of conscious capitalism. I mean, there were the magazine covers, the stages, just like this one, the awards and the accolades because I believed that achievement would quiet that voice. Instead, it made it louder.

Fresh Air

Lisa Kudrow

You can't be humiliated if you don't allow it. You have to agree to be humiliated. And I never signed up for that.

It's Been a Minute

'The Pitt' star Sepideh Moafi on being limitless | It's Been a Minute

We we self-deprecate and we sort of downplay ourselves and our dreams throughout our life. Especially for people who grow up in marginalized communities and people who are not necessarily, you know, born and raised here or people who come from immigrant or refugee families and it's time to sort of reclaim ourselves and our dreams and our narratives.

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

Celebrating the 4th with nothing but bangers!

A guy came up to the mic right over there and he said, 'My wife left me because she said I wasn't you.' And he literally dropped the mic and I thought that kind of covers the whole gamut.