How to master a life transition | Bruce Feiler

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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How do you navigate life's growing number of transitions with meaning, purpose and skill? Writer Bruce Feiler offers a powerful way to handle uncertain, painful and confusing times -- or "lifequakes", as he calls them. Learn how to equip yourself with the essential tools and mindset to ride out (and rewrite) the toughest chapters of your life story, and turn unease and upheaval into growth and renewal.

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0:00.0	It's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hu. Humans are born storytellers. We create narratives of who we are.
0:11.1	But what happens when we lose the plot in our life stories? In his 2021 talk from TEDx-I-E Madrid,
0:17.8	author Bruce Filer asks us to reframe the way we look at our lives. Instead of a staircase
0:23.1	or a straight path, it's really not linear at all. And upheaval can lead to renewal and more meaning.
0:30.0	A quick note that this talk does feature some sensitive topics and may not be suitable for all
0:34.4	listeners.
0:37.5	I used to have a saying that phone calls don't change your life.
0:41.7	Until one day, I got a phone call that did.
0:45.1	It was from my mother.
0:47.0	Your father is trying to kill himself.
0:50.2	He's what?
0:51.9	My dad was a son of the American South, a Navy veteran and civic leader.
0:57.3	He was never depressed a minute until he got Parkinson's.
1:02.1	Six times in 12 weeks, my dad attempted to end his life.
1:07.1	We tried every solution imaginable.
1:10.1	Until one day, I had a thought.
1:12.9	Maybe my dad needed a spark to restart his life story.
1:17.3	One morning, I sent him a question.
1:19.8	Tell me about the toys you played with as a child.
1:23.4	What happened next changed not only him but everyone around him,
1:28.3	and led me to reimagine how we all make meaning, purpose, and joy in our lives.
1:34.5	This is the story of what happened next and what we all can learn from it.
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