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Here's Where It Gets Interesting

137. How to Ensure the Stories of our Lives Don’t Stink with Donald Miller

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.915.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sharon talks with Donald Miller, entrepreneur, podcast host, and bestselling author, about the stories in our lives and how we live them. Our stories stink. When we fill our free time with passive consumption, we’re left with a narrative void that doesn’t enrich our lives. Donald’s new book, Hero On A Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life, sets up readers to create meaning and nuance in the story of their lives. Sharon and Donald also talk about the two-party system in the U.S. and what it would take to have an alternative system, or add a third party. Spoiler alert: it’s an uphill battle, but perhaps not impossible!

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0:00.0

Hey friends! Thanks so much for joining me today, so happy to have you here. If you

0:05.9

have already read any of Donald Miller's books, you know what a delight he is. And if

0:11.0

you're new to Don, then you're gonna enjoy this conversation. We talked quite a

0:15.4

bit about political parties, third parties, some of the things that he's up to,

0:21.0

but he is also an entrepreneur. Just has so many interests and valuable things to

0:27.6

contribute. So let's dive in. I'm Sharon Nickman and welcome to the Sharon Says So

0:33.5

Podcast. Don, thank you so much for joining me. Such a pleasure. So nice to

0:39.6

finally meet you. It's an honor to be with you. You are just like a massively

0:45.9

best-selling author. How many books have you written? No. Ten. Ten that I'm willing to

0:51.2

say. I won't make you name any names. I won't make you name any names, but are

0:56.0

there any that you look back on? You're like, oh no, that was not good. You

1:01.8

don't know. And I'm thankful mainly because I look back on it, right? I don't

1:05.1

pull them off stuff and read them. I don't read them on reviews. So maybe you

1:07.9

don't reread your own books. No, they've asked me recently to go back and read the

1:12.1

audiobook for some old books and I wouldn't do it because they're fine in my

1:17.1

mind as they are. They're not in my home and people like them and that's fine

1:23.2

with me. I don't poke. Oh, no, don't poke the beehive and find out something. I

1:29.3

don't want to know. I don't want to know who I used to be. That's the bottom line.

1:34.7

I like who I am. I don't really want to go back and find out. What are most of

1:39.6

your books about for somebody who's never read a Donald Miller book? Yeah, well I

1:44.2

started out writing essentially memoirs sort of subject-oriented memoir and my

1:51.5

first book was about traveling across the country in a Volkswagen camping man.

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