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How To Human with Sam Lamott

Chronic Uncertainty with Kate Bowler

How To Human with Sam Lamott

Sam Lamott

Health & Fitness

5826 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Kate Bowler, PhD is a New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and a professor at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we’re capable of change. She is the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel and The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. After being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35, she penned the New York Times bestselling memoir, the New York Times bestselling memoir Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved) and her latest, No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear). Kate hosts the Everything Happens podcast where, in warm, insightful, often funny conversations, she talks with people like Malcolm Gladwell and Anne Lamott about what they’ve learned in difficult times. She lives in Durham, North Carolina with her family and continues to teach do-gooders at Duke Divinity School. For more of Kate: Website: https://katebowler.com Books: https://katebowler.com/books Podcast: https://katebowler.com/podcasts For more of us: Website: www.Hellohumans.co Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellohumans.co/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellohumans.co/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HelloHumans_co To become a patron and help this program continue producing this show, and get access to patron-only events, go to www.patreon.com/hellohuman and pledge any amount.

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0:00.0

Hello, humans. For those of you who are new here, my name is Sam Lamott. Welcome to the How to Human

0:04.9

podcast. I will not be telling you How to Human in any of these episodes, but I am searching for what

0:11.0

some people that I look up to have learned and are doing in their lives. Welcome to the How to Human

0:15.9

podcast. For a brief moment, I want you to take in if you can as much as possible in one moment, the totality of your life.

0:27.2

Now, I get it.

0:28.7

You might be listening to a program like this to take a break from your life.

0:32.8

But let's just for a second, zoom out and take it all in.

0:37.4

The whole expanse of it, your childhood,

0:41.9

your coming of age, your life now, your first heartbreak, your first love, the first time

0:48.9

you were betrayed, the first time you made an amazing friend, this whole collection that is your life.

0:58.3

Just feel it for a moment.

1:01.7

And at the root of this whole thing you're doing now, the experience of being human, being

1:07.5

you, being your world.

1:13.0

There's one inconvenient truth about it,

1:15.7

which is it's all going to end.

1:17.2

You're going to die.

1:21.4

And I can already hear some of my listeners and friends going,

1:22.6

yeah, bring it on.

1:24.5

I didn't ask for this mess.

1:25.7

I get it.

1:26.3

I get it.

1:30.1

I'm with you at times in my life as well. I get it.

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