GETTING CURIOUS | How Can We Take Charge Of Our Lives? with Dr. Edith Eger

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

One of the lessons in Dr. Edith Eger’s latest book The Gift is that love equals time. And on this week’s Getting Curious, Dr. Eger is joining Jonathan for an hour of love, compassion, and life lessons. Dr. Eger is a bestselling author, psychologist, and Holocaust survivor. Her first book The Choice, released in 2018, details her story of courage and resilience as a survivor of Auschwitz. In her new book The Gift she shares some of her best advice for confronting life’s challenges and building a meaningful existence. Learn more about Dr. Eger on Twitter @DrEdithEger1, on Instagram @dr.editheger, and at www.DrEdithEger.com. And make sure to check out Dr. Eger's books The Choice and The Gift. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:09.5	On today's episode, I'm joined by Dr Edith Egger, a best-selling author, psychologist, and Holocaust Survivor, where I ask her, how can we take charge of our lives?
0:20.0	Welcome to Getting Curious on this week's episode.
0:25.0	We have, I mean honestly, the most incredible guest we've ever had.
0:31.0	You are a best-selling author. You are a psychologist. You are a Holocaust survivor. Welcome to
0:38.9	getting curious, Dr. Edy Egger. How are you, Dr. Edy Egger.
0:45.0	How are you, Dr. Edy? Oh, I'm great. I'm so happy that I meet you.
0:50.0	I know you do a lot of good.
0:52.0	You are such an ambassador for peace for us to finally form a human family and hold hand in hand.
1:02.0	So I'm going to look at you as the ambassador for peace and goodwill.
1:09.6	I look at you as the ambassador of peace and goodwill and I'm I am there's I don't know if there's a word
1:18.1	strong enough for how flattered I feel that you would say that and give me your time.
1:24.0	So I thank you so much.
1:27.0	You wrote a book called The Choice.
1:29.4	And this book details your survival story.
1:33.4	And it also details about, you know, how you,
1:38.1	how your story changed your outlook on grief and healing. And your latest book, The Giff. your
1:43.6	outlook on grief and healing. And your latest book, The Gift, is a practical inspirational guide to
1:47.9	overcoming life's most complex challenges. And on our podcast what I like to do is ask a question in each
1:58.4	episode and my question for you today in the face of everything that is going on in the world.
2:07.2	How can we take charge of our lives is my question for you today? And that's a big question. Obviously we're in the
2:17.5	middle of a pandemic and so many people are experiencing grief and
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