E290. Why the Victim Mindset is Seductive - Andrew Boryga

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Andrew Boryga sits down with Bridget to discuss his book Victim, a sa tire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diversity initiatives and decides to cash in on the weaponization of identity politics. They talk about his journey as a writer, how the book changed over the 10 years it took to write, the evolution of the novel's main character, the idea of people playing on their victim status for personal gain and sympathy, and his motivations for tackling themes of victimhood, diversity, and resilience. They cover his experience writing at the New York Times, being asked to write a certain type of story about his trauma and oppression over and over again, why he'd rather talk about the class differences than racial differences, parenting in a tech-driven world, managing work-life balance, and what becoming a dad changed about the way he approached his writing. Sponsor Links: The Campaign Managers - https://bit.ly/WiW-TCM PlutoTV - https://bit.ly/WiWPlutoTV

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0:00.0	All right. I'm with Andrew Berega everybody. Welcome to Walkins. Welcome. Thank you for coming through to talk to me.
0:07.0	Thank you for having me.
0:08.0	I'm excited to talk to you about your book, Victim. I really, first of all, want to hear a little bit about your background and how you
0:16.9	decided to write, you know, came to decide to write a book. Did you always want to be an author?
0:23.0	Yeah, well I want to be a writer pretty young, I knew that, when I was about 16.
0:28.0	I focused on journalism at first, and mostly because that was like the path that I saw available.
0:35.7	I didn't really imagine what a being novelist was or what that would look like.
0:40.1	But when I went to college and I started doing creative writing classes, then I fell in love with fiction and it was around that time when I was like I want to write a book.
0:47.0	Where did you go to college?
0:49.0	Cornell.
0:50.0	Okay. And you grew up in the Bronx, correct? I grew up in the Bronx, yeah.
0:55.0	You're kind of living my dream. I feel like as I was just in New York City and I feel and every I was born there actually.
1:02.0	Oh yeah, where?
1:04.0	Where in here?
1:05.0	Like upper west, but it was, I was only there for like the first two and a half years
1:08.0	of my life and then they had my brother and they were like,
1:10.0	we're out of here.
1:11.0	And it was like 1980, so it wasn't you know I mean I
1:14.7	think it's a little bit more like 1980 now than it has been in a while but I
1:20.7	always you know kind of dreamt of being like a novelist living in New York City that was my probably if you asked me like what was your dream when you were like 10 you know that was that was probably it and even when I went back there I was like,
1:36.0	I still have that like lingering dream in me to be a fancy New York writer?
1:44.0	Yeah, you know, I wanted that for a while too,
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