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it's distinct. I'm doing a new book at the moment called "Epiphany," which is based on a series of interviews with people

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at Parnassus. You can speak out against book banning. >> >> Because books are not the things

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trained for. Also, you can just read a book. Do you wish that people read books

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Our monthly book club at Parnassus is now so large we've broken it into three

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sections. We also have a classics book club and a romance book club, and once a

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We also have a classics book club and a romance book club, and once a year those two groups come together to

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and she sobbed for most of the hour. She'd just bought a new address book, and she'd spent the morning filling in her many contacts,

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So what happened to Emma? Well, we went through that address book, and she found an old roommate's cousin

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And then I tried to copy them. If they read a book I hadn’t read, I read it. Or if they used a word I’d never heard in Oshkosh,

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and a lot of love into my life. Richard Powers, in his book "Bewilderment," says, maybe the purpose of life

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do difficult or sustained cognitive work like reading a book. I teach a course at NYU called

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heavy TikTok user, she said, "Yeah, I take out a book, I read a sentence, I get bored,

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I use my blog, I use my talk, I use the book I just published, and I'm even building technology to help people overcome their fear of rejection.

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through success I could have never imagined. I even wrote a "New York Times" best selling book about how I did it, how I became a "Master of Me."

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You don't believe me? There's a book called "Get Married." And it came out, of course, on Valentine's Day.

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I went out and interviewed dozens of people who had a friendship like ours, and I wrote a book about them. And the kinds of friends that I spoke to,

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to talk to my neighbors and says to me, you know, "You're writing this book on friends. What would you tell other people who are in your situation?"

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and with hope. You know, my niece read my book "Platonic," and one thing that she took away from it was that for friendship to happen,

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Friendship is, it seems such a unique area to research. And I actually want to read something back to you from your book to help us understand a little bit more

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WPR: You touched on this a little bit in the talk, and in the book, you separate, sort of, the way you think about friendship to two categories.

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how it benefits you, you have this phrase in your book where you say, “Connecting to others makes us ourselves.”

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or to be really good at this process of doing this, you know, there's a popular excerpt from your book that you shared in "The Atlantic"

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reading academic papers, every business book I could get my hands on, all to come up with the framework now known as the Setback Cycle.

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and I was getting ready for the biggest professional milestone of my career, the launch of my book about how leaders successfully work through their biggest setbacks.

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I've won several industry awards. My book stayed on the "USA Today" bestseller list for several weeks in a row.

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Author and activist Susan McPherson wrote a book called "The Lost Art of Connecting." In it, she says, we are much more interconnected than we realize,

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So if you're not sure where to start, try the 5-3-1 guideline from my book. It goes like this.

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They are identical twin sisters and the coauthors of a book about burnout, for everyone who is overwhelmed and exhausted by all they have to do,

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Let's dive right in. You coauthored a book called "Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle." And the inspiration for this book was actually based on

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You coauthored a book called "Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle." And the inspiration for this book was actually based on a personal experience that you had with burnout, Amelia.

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and I love them so much, I wrote a book highlighting 75 of my favorites. We will cover them all -- I wish.

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I think about this a lot. I'm a labor journalist, and I wrote a book called "The Good Enough Job," in which I spoke to over 100 people

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Now these don't have to be grand gestures. In the reporting in my book, I spoke to all of these hyperambitious workaholics,

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like a recession or a layoff. I spoke to all of these folks for my book who treated their work like their family and then were unceremoniously let go during the pandemic.

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Do you talk to the woman who walks by your house every day with her dog? Do you play bridge or poker, have a book club? Those interactions are one of the strongest predictors

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which has caused me to have to recalibrate my whole relationship with this work. And the peculiar thing is that I recently wrote this book, this memoir called "Eat, Pray, Love"

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Aren't you afraid you're going to keep writing for your whole life and you're never again going to create a book that anybody in the world cares about at all,

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is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right? I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now --

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that we all fall into when we're working on something and it's not coming and you start to think this is going to be a disaster, the worst book ever written. Not just bad, but the worst book ever written.

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and you start to think this is going to be a disaster, the worst book ever written. Not just bad, but the worst book ever written. And I started to think I should just dump this project.

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And I said aloud, "Listen you, thing, you and I both know that if this book isn't brilliant that is not entirely my fault, right?

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and this is certainly how I've been thinking in the last few months as I've been working on the book that will soon be published, as the dangerously, frighteningly over-anticipated follow up

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Shortly after I published my book, I got an email.

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It said, "Your book was the only thing that saved me from suicide. You saved my life."

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You saved my life." Now, for a book about how to clean, that's sort of odd, yeah? (Laughter)

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Bonnie Toy is a journalist, a surfer, and the author of the book On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It

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think of when it comes to physical fitness. >> So, Bonnie, you wrote the book on muscle and I'm curious what writing and

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and I'm curious what writing and researching this book made you think differently about when it comes to strength.

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connect different periods of Our Lives William bridges in his 1980 book transitions called them inner reorientations

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We had two amazing children. I wrote a book about my journey, "Chasing My Cure," which is being turned into a film,

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practically every night on the television news is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. We lost 3.5 trillion dollars just in the last decade.

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they take a trip with a loved one join a book group help a neighbor sell their car s they volunteer at a museum March in a

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BS: Alright, let's change gears, shall we, to dreams. In your book, "Genesis," you strike a cautiously optimistic tone, which you obviously co-authored with Henry Kissinger.

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has it really come to this I never bought that book of one minute stories thankfully

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like walking stretching or reading a book the point is to let your mind wander

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here's an example some book clubs Now read the novels of Charles Dickens in monthly installments

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In our study, we auctioned a book for some people and then we auctioned the University of Chicago tote bag

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to other people. The average person was willing to pay 23 dollars for the book, but only 12 dollars for the tote bag.

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The catch? The tote bag contained the book. (Laughter)

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And people knew it. Why would the people that were bidding on a tote bag that contains a book, be willing to pay less?

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Maybe those are the people in your gym class or in your book club. You hold goals for others, they hold goals for you.

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I played not one, but two Division I college sports. I wrote a book. I got my PhD,

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So while you had adults who were out there arguing with one another, trying to suppress access to knowledge and history through book bans, young people were able to successfully stop book bans

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trying to suppress access to knowledge and history through book bans, young people were able to successfully stop book bans in places like Texas and Pennsylvania and beyond.

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making sure their school boards heard what they had to say. They even went on offense, creating banned book clubs and libraries, spaces where community members could be able to come together,

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I was very nervous. I had been working on a book about love stories for the past few years,

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I don't know if I realized this at the time -- I thought I was just doing research for this book I was writing -- but it seems really obvious in retrospect.

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And I tried it out. You know, I wanted to book a restaurant, and it's kind of incredible.

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You know, the underlying basis of what Google did where it digitized, it stole you know, every single written book in the world, didn't it? That was one of its first acts.

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because there's going to be no economic model for anybody to write another book or, you know. So, we’re ceding,

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one of my favorite books is "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. And I remember in that book, he does a lot of visualizing, and a lot of thinking about it.

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So my daughter, a dating coach, and I wrote a book about how to choose your partner. It was an exhaustive psychological review on how to make an informed decision.

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It was an exhaustive psychological review on how to make an informed decision. When that book came out recently, what everybody wanted to talk about,

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that just sort of seems to appear out of the blue. Erika Moen, the cartoonist who illustrated my book, draws spontaneous desire as a lightning bolt to the genitals --

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Years, maybe, of all these difficult feelings. In the book, I use this really silly metaphor of difficult feelings as sleepy hedgehogs

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So I told them about me. I spent many months writing a book about the science of women's sexual well-being. I was thinking about sex all day, every day,

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There's a great South African philosopher by the name of Steve Biko. He wrote an amazing book called "I Write What I Like." And in it, he says,

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It’s filled with a lot of uncertainty and doubt, waiting for the muse. It turns out you can't write a 350-page book that way. HW: No, I imagine.

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and with my brother is that I decided to write a book. But it felt like I was exploiting them,

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All of our DNA is organized into 23 pairs of chromosomes. Chapters, if you will, in the book that is our genome. What if Evo learned to generate a 24th chapter?

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And all these years later, the poems I'll read today are from my just-finished seventh book of poetry. Well, five years ago, I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

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See, over the years, America has taught me more about parenting than any book on the subject. It has taught me how some women give birth to babies

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but in the evenings, he wrote nonsense for his children. And this book was one of the most famous books in America for about 35 years.

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

When she was 10 years old in 1927, she published her first book of poems called "The Janitor's Boy."

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and started to research their lives, and then decided to write a book about it. And the burning question about Alma-Tadema

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I felt completely trapped. I bought a book on simplicity to try to find answers. And I did find a quote that made a big difference in my life,

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I ended up extending that trip for a year and a half around the world, and that became the basis for my first book, that leads me here today.

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When I was 12 years old, I came home from school one day and I decided to read my history book on the front lawn.

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scientists looked at children who were reading for pleasure. That means that they picked up a magazine, a picture book, a story book. The data showed that children who were reading for pleasure

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was to talk to them, be interested in their future, put them to bed on time, and give them a book to read? Our job would be done.

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and to show that I value what they do at school. Of course, I make sure they always have a book to read. I tell them I'm ambitious for their future,

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And around the age of five, I asked for every religious book, I mean every religious book. Fast forwarding to 13, I read my first short story

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And a new species can emerge from it. I mean, in your book, you did, as well as painting an incredible optimistic vision,

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I could say "Accio" and name anything and it would fly into my hands, even if it's a restricted book, locked and hidden inside the headmaster's office.

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I kind of understood, this is what shame is, this is how it works. I wrote a book, I published a theory, but something was not okay -- and what it was is that, if I roughly took the people I interviewed

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WPR: Wow. And I know in the book you talk about ... how the advice you offer,

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All of those things really matter for our health. WPR: And you start the book with a question. You say, "If you had to make one life choice right now

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RW: Yes. And thank you for asking that question. So we have a couple of life stories in our book, the book contains real stories of real people.

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So we have a couple of life stories in our book, the book contains real stories of real people. The names are disguised to protect confidentiality.

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then nature was over. In fact, he called his book "The End of Nature." I disagree with this. I just disagree with this.

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