Fresh Air

Actor Jon Bernthal on grit, dedication & the teacher who saved him

I love opportunities to turn my back on the audience. I love to sort of take it too far to try to push myself to a place or push the audience to a place where they can no longer be with this character, but then try to win them back through showing the fragility of their heart, showing how brokenhearted they are, showing how much pain they have, because I do think pain is a real adhesive. And I think it's the thing that really connects all of us.

Daily Stoic

6 Stoic Rules To Beat Ego

Because you don't want to look stupid, you'll stay stupid or because you don't want to ask for help, you don't get help. Uh or you don't want to look like you want it too badly, so you don't get it.

TED Radio Hour

Sports psychology for everyday life

The more open you can be to be completely devastated by something, the more possibility opens up to you. And I think that that's true in life, I think that's true in love, I know that that's true in sport.

Fresh Air

Best Of: Laverne Cox /Comic Ali Siddiq

I saw the switch flip in their eyes. I saw that flicker of threat. The way their stances shifted into those of aggression that made the hairs on my arms stand on end. They were disgusted by me. I was no longer a friend. A peer. Someone to play with. I was an easy target. I was prey.

TED Radio Hour

Sports psychology for everyday life

the more open you can be to be completely devastated by something, the more possibility opens up to you. And I think that that's true in life. I think that's true in love. I know that that's true in sport. The more you open yourself up to devastation, the more possibility will be open to you.

Fresh Air

Laverne Cox

I saw the switch flip in their eyes. I saw that flicker of threat. The way their stances shifted into those of aggression that made the hairs on my arms stand on end. They were disgusted by me. I was no longer a friend, a peer, someone to play with. I was an easy target. I was prey.

TED Radio Hour

Sports psychology for everyday life

the more open you can be to be completely devastated by something, the more possibility opens up to you. And I think that that's true in life. I think that's true in love. I know that that's true in sport.

Book of the Day

'The Yahoo Boys' investigates Nigeria’s network of cyber crime 'sweetheart scams'

I know that all these scams sound preposterous to most people. But I think when talking about these victims, one has to make the effort to put themselves in their shoes. And we are talking about people who have gone through hell.

TED Radio Hour

Sports psychology for everyday life

I try to tell my kid, the more open you can be to be completely devastated by something, the more possibility opens up to you. And I think that that's true in life. I think that's true in love. I know that that's true in sport. The more you open yourself up to devastation, the more possibility will be open to you.

Fresh Air

'Daily Show' comic Josh Johnson

One of the most connected attributes of the human condition ... is just being flawed. We really connect with people on their faults.

Code Switch

DACA recipients are trapped in Trump's limbo

It's so hard to be living not only in constant limbo, but with this level of hyper-vigilance that no matter what you do, there are outside factors that can wreck your life with a blink of an eye.

Fresh Air

Scottish novelist Douglas Stuart on the isolation of secret-keeping

It's hard to tell people about grief. It's hard to talk to people about poverty... and so I'd got very used to the silence in my own life, and my writing is the only thing that allows me to connect with myself.

Book of the Day

Patrick Radden Keefe on 'London Falling' and the mystery of Zac Brettler

But there was a kind of corrosive anxiety, I think, about not having more. And you know, in some ways this is a very specific story about one boy who was a fabulist and who died too young. In other ways, I feel as though there are elements of this story that many of us would recognize.

Fresh Air

Arsenio Hall

I felt insatiably black and profoundly alone. To be 100% yourself and still that self be rejected.

The Origins Podcast

The Science Behind Drinking To Get Sober | Katie Herzog & Lawrence Krauss

Personally, it was more difficult. So, I lost a lot of friends, a lot of old friends, and that will never stop being painful to be abandoned by people who I'm sure that you have.

Book of the Day

In new memoirs, David Archuleta and Lindy West break with their pasts

It is so hard to try and live this way without being able to really share who I really am.

Fresh Air

Riz Ahmed is chasing acceptance in 'Bait'

the gap between that public self and the messy vulnerability of our private selves is often huge. And that's true whether you're talking about how your life is actually going versus the Instagram post you just put up or that you saw of someone else, or how professional and put together you're seeming on a Zoom call when actually you're not wearing any pants, just out of the frame.

TED

1 Thing You Can Do Today to Be Happier | Sonja Lyubomirsky | TED

We will feel more loved if we become more known, if we learn to talk to people in a way that takes down the walls between us.

TED

How to Capture Your Audience’s Attention | Athens | TED Idea Search

Bad breath is kind of a metaphor for humanness, for being a human being, for loving somebody enough to tell them something that might be painful in the short term but very helpful in the long term.

Book of the Day

In new memoir, Gavin Newsom reflects on his political rise | NPR's Book of the Day

I'm just offering a glimpse of some of the things that people may not see, of sweaty hands, of anxiety, insecurity, of trying to be someone I'm not, of making mistakes, learning from those mistakes.

NPR Podcasts

'The Irish Goodbye' and 'Frog' are micro-memoirs and essays about everyday life

I'm not interested in holding anything back anymore. I'm not interested in protecting myself or being koi or photoshopping my emotions or my life.