#8: Forgiveness
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In This Episode of The Say The Word Podcast…
We’re talking about:
how story can both spotlight our gaps and invite us to fill them
an excerpt from Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko
loss, hope, and what it means to forgive
Here’s where the action’s happening in today’s episode:
[00:46] - welcome
[01:02] - 2 requests for you!
[01:42] - the impact of story
[02:31] - a spotlight on what I didn’t know
[04:33] - an excerpt from Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko
[06:01] - loss and hope
[07:34] - Tali Sharot’s optimism bias (watch her TED Talk )
[08:24] - our “stupid" hearts
[09:52] - revisiting the last two sentences
[10:12] - who’s on the receiving end?
[10:51] - the other side of the coin
[12:12] - what does forgiveness mean?
[12:55] - the three sides to the forgiveness triangle
[15:51] - Hector Black’s The Moth story
[17:11] - where to begin
[18:23] - forgiveness as a practice
[20:02] - Meredith H.’s quote from The Fates and The Furies
[21:08] - what’s coming up next week
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