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Krista Tippett

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  1. “You know, if I get curious, if I give myself over to an experience, I really give myself over to it. And I guess I'm a good learner. And so that was the way they had experienced me, you know, full-time that semester I spent there. And then this woman came to Brown and she said to her I was like a different person. She said she knows everyone, which I never thought of myself. I never thought of myself as someone who knew everyone. And she saw me as very outgoing and gregarious and a strong personality. I mean, I don't know. I look back at my college self. I look back myself in my 20s. Like many of us, I think. I only remember all the self-doubt and the confusion.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Well, I mean, it was, it's suffused with paranoia because they always assumed that I was working for the CIA. So ridiculous because 19 year old college sophomores don't work for the CIA. So it was like it was like observing me through this lens of paranoia. But they saw me as so competent in a way that I think I didn't see myself. You know, like one of them when it came to Brown after knowing me in East Germany where I was just so much in learning mode and soaking everything up mode. And I guess that would be one of my superpowers that I”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “The East German Secret Service had kept files on me from the time that I went to East Germany on a Brown Exchange program, my junior year, which included reports on me from East German students who came to Brown through that same exchange program. And then later in the years I spent in Berlin. And it's so fascinating. It's like this malevolent observer malevolent, however, you know, like kept folders for me of me in my 20s. And so in my Stasi file, like all the letters I wrote home to my parents from my semester abroad, all the letters my parents wrote to me, the letters back and forth between me and my boyfriend, and also the observations of these East German graduate students about me at college. So fascinating. So, one day when I'm no longer doing this radio show, I will write this book.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Oh gosh, it's such an interesting question. I mean, I did feel like I had moved from one planet, which was my small town in Oklahoma, you know, Bible belt. This very different world. And, you know, I'll tell you something interesting. I ended up spending most of my 20s in Divided Berlin. And after the wall fell, I got my Stasi files.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “No, it's so interesting to get to be in your 50s, which I have to say, when I turned 50, I found that. I've never cared about birthdays and have basically found every decade to be more interesting than the last. But this one I didn't like. I didn't like the number 50. I didn't like crossing it. But now that I'm in it, you have a certain perspective on your life. And I do feel not that I ever would have planned or, you know, foreseen what I do now. I mean, until, you know, even a few years before I did it, but it does, it does feel like it pulls on all these threads, all these many things that I did in my life. And what's interesting to me is that it actually does pull on that drama piece, which I went away to college. I never did that again. And kind of late in life in what turns out to be. I guess my big career.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “I don't know that I was always against football. I just felt like I got too much attention. And then when I got older, I had this enlightened moment kind of. High school where I was a debater, I did drama and debate, and that's actually what kept my brain alive growing up. And I found out that the high school football team had a $50,000 budget, which included staked. For all the players after every game. And this is one of my first introductions to injustice in the world. And I protested that and it absolutely colored my view of football That was a lot of money. I mean, there's a lot of money now. It was a huge amount of money in the 1960s, 70s.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Yes, and you know, maybe that's part of the reason I'm Have a sensitivity to this because I think my father had had a A terrible first three years of his life, which we didn't know then, but we know now is so completely formative in terms of how people handle the rest of their lives. And I'm not sure exactly what happened to him. I think he was possibly... Abused. It was possibly violent. At best, it was severely neglectful. And my father was this kind of larger than life character. That's how he presented. And of course, he was my father. So, you know, he was this huge, powerful character. But I think even from a very, very young age. Sense that underneath he was very frightened. Yeah, I hadn't actually thought recently about how that may be helping me imagine that inside the political dynamics in America right now.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “This way we have of reacting to each other's surfaces is getting in the way among other things, it's getting in the way of us grappling with all the very real things we need to grapple with that actually are of our shared interest and have to do with our common well-being.”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Well, I guess the context of that quote or how I walk around with that thought is it's such an important context and kind of piece of perspective to dealing with the Level of emotion in our public life right now. And, you know, it's in politics, but it's really everywhere. And we. We take things at face value that we would be wiser to not take at face value. We would be wiser to be taking more breaths. And understanding that things are true of other people that are also true of us, that when we're upset, often the thing we say and do, Really, a deflection of what we're actually upset about or how we're upset. And in terms of our public life right now”

    2017-02-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #223: Calming Philosophies for Chaotic Times -- Krista Tippett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT