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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Anthony Doerr

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions Pulitzer Prize winning author Anthony Doerr. Anthony shares the unexpected gift that came from early challenges he and his wife had while trying to grow their family, his advice for writers on creating something that sticks, and why efficiency is overrated.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:05.4

We have a son named Henry as well.

0:07.4

Oh.

0:08.2

Also enjoys the hot pocket now and then.

0:10.5

I tried to make them.

0:11.9

I tried to make them because I was like, okay, if you're going to like a hot pocket,

0:14.8

it's not that far off like a calzone.

0:17.0

So that's been feeding Italians from time immemorial.

0:19.6

So perhaps we should just have a go

0:21.0

and making a hot pocket. And Henry was like, what is the Italian word for Kelsoen mean again?

0:25.3

And I was like, sock. And he was like, yeah, mom, you made a sock. It tastes like a sock.

0:30.7

Nice.

0:33.7

Hello, I'm Mini Driver. Welcome to Mini Questions Season 2.

0:38.7

I've always loved Proust's questionnaire.

0:41.3

It was originally an 19th century parlor game,

0:44.7

where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other player's true nature.

0:50.8

It's just the scientific method, really.

0:53.7

In asking different people the same set of

0:55.8

questions, you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. I love this

1:01.4

discipline. And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point?

1:06.7

What greater depths would be revealed if I ask these questions as conversation starters,

1:12.0

with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines?

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