E271. Overcoming The Victim Mentality - Rob Henderson

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Rob Henderson returns to talk about his new book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class . He and Bridget discuss the realities of the foster care system, what it’s like to be a foster kid, the kinds of people who become foster parents, and the difficulties of writing such a memoir. They explore the hardest chapter to write, the process of fact-checking a memoir, their experience as teens vs. teens today, and doing irresponsible things in a responsible way. They cover why dwelling on victimhood is a luxury, the reframing of everything as problematic, trying to tear everything down rather than finding the value in it, Rob’s experience at Yale after serving in the military, having a front row seat to the birth of the woke movement, the insular world of the educated elite, using wokeness as a way of seeking status, and building a career outside of traditional academia and media. Sponsor Links: - Patriot Gold - Call 888-614-9238 - Varnamtown - https://bit.ly/wiw-varnamtown - Pluto TV - https://bit.ly/WiWPlutoTV

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0:00.0	This week on the podcast we welcome back author Rob Henderson.
0:04.0	In some ways like dwelling on victim it is almost a luxury.
0:07.0	If you're actually in those experiences you like it's just too debilitating to suddenly like
0:12.2	concentrate on your misfortunes and think about how bad things are.
0:15.3	It's more about like, okay, this thing happened, how do we survive till tomorrow, till next week,
0:19.9	what do we have to do? And it's funny funny like it wasn't until after I had more or less totally
0:27.0	escape from those situations and by the time you know I got to Yale which maybe
0:30.9	we can discuss later it was like, that was when people started to talk about this idea of victimhood. But if you go to those, if you go to these towns, if you go to these places where there's a lot of poverty and dysfunction and chaos and what have you, like no one's
0:45.4	talking about, you know, how hard things are or how victimized they are.
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1:49.0	Okay, I'm with Rob Henderson back on the podcast.
1:53.0	Welcome back to Watkins.
1:54.0	Welcome, Rob.
1:55.6	Hey Bridget, great to be here.
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