#152 - Reading in Odd Circumstances
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra Adachi
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Based on the number of downloads of past episodes related to reading, I know that there’s an overwhelming majority of people listening who really love to read. So when our regular reading rhythms are disrupted by odd circumstances, it’s nice to have a roadmap of how to get back to normal or how to create a new normal. That’s what this episode will do.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Kendra Dachie and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter |
| 0:09.8 | and lazy about the things that don't. |
| 0:12.2 | Today is episode 152, reading and odd circumstances. |
| 0:18.0 | If you're listening to this in the spring of 2020, we are in the middle of the COVID-19 |
| 0:22.3 | pandemic, so weird thing to say, and you've likely been home for a long while. |
| 0:27.8 | We have really gone through it, you guys. |
| 0:30.1 | The emotional upheaval, the annoyance at the groundhog day of everything, coupled with |
| 0:37.0 | the grief we feel for people all over the world in unthinkable circumstances, the sudden |
| 0:42.7 | task of walking our kids through online school, figuring out how to talk to them about |
| 0:47.0 | what's happening, trying to work from home, maybe alongside a partner who also has to |
| 0:50.9 | work from home, being worried about money, not being around our friends and families, |
| 0:55.4 | not going to church. |
| 0:56.7 | Not hugging people, not knowing what's going to happen from one day to the next. |
| 1:00.6 | I am not listing this out to be dramatic. |
| 1:03.3 | Maybe we just need to take this moment to put our national and global situation in context. |
| 1:08.9 | This is hard. |
| 1:11.7 | You are not being kind to yourself at all if you're not allowing yourself to say that this |
| 1:15.8 | is hard. |
| 1:16.8 | I know that none of us wants to fold and throw on our cards and give up, but you can still |
| 1:22.4 | rally and be resilient and hopeful at the same time that you name the difficulty of what's |
| 1:28.9 | happening. |
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