403: What nearly going blind taught me about longevity | NYT writer Frank Bruni

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Frank Bruni: “Almost all of the difficulties we deal with are not visible to the naked eye.” Bruni, a New York Times columnist and bestselling author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how nearly going blind helped him see more clearly, plus: - How to mentally recover from an invisible illness (~11:41) - How to feel empowered about your health (~13:54) - How to deeply connect with others on social media (~19:22) - How to be an independent thinker (~24:39) - How to have a productive conversation about health care & politics (~30:25) Referenced in the episode: - Bruni's book, The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found. - mbg's Invisible Illness series. - NAION Facebook support group. - Bruni's New York Times article on his NAION diagnosis. - Bruni's New York Times article, "Our Tribalism Will Be the Death of Us." - Watch Bruni on Real Time With Bill Maher. - Read Bruni's newsletter. - Crown Shy. - 4 Charles Prime Rib. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:43.6	performance is not guaranteed. Frank Brooney has been a prominent journalist for more than three
0:52.0	decades, including more than 25 years at the New York Times. The last 10 of them as a nationally
0:58.7	renowned op-ed columnist who appeared frequently as a TV commentator. He was also a White House
1:05.2	correspondent for the Times, its Rome bureau chief, and for five years its chief restaurant critic.
1:12.4	He's the author of Three New York Times Best Sellers and in July 2021, he became a full professor
1:19.2	at Duke University teaching media oriented classes in the School of Public Policy. He continues
1:25.5	to write his popular weekly newsletter for the Times and to produce occasional essays as one of
1:30.4	the newspapers official contributing opinion writers. And today, he's here to chat about his new
1:37.4	best-selling book titled The Beauty of Dusk, On Vision Lost and Found, which hits home here at
1:44.8	My Buddy Green as it shines the spotlight on our invisible illness series, which I encourage
1:51.0	all of you to check out and we will link to in the show notes.
1:58.5	Frank, welcome. Thanks for having me. So great to have you, as I mentioned before the show,
2:04.2	such a huge fan of your work and your book is just so important. Our own eyesight is something we
2:09.8	tend not to think about until we start to struggle with it. So really important work. So
2:14.2	congratulations. Thank you. Walk us through that morning in 2017, pretty innocuous morning,
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