How To Uproot Your Life
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A decade after Elizabeth's family left the U.S. to live in Portugal, they're wondering if it's time to move back. In this episode of How To! we turn to professional poker player, Annie Duke, who treats every decision like it's a bet. She says think of each choice as a wager on your future self. But how do you go all in when you're uncertain about the odds?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Charles Doohig. If you like how to, we would love to encourage you to go on to Apple |
| 0:07.4 | podcast and to rate the show and maybe even write a review if you want. It really helps other people find the |
| 0:13.9 | podcast and hopefully lets us solve more people's problems. Here's the show. |
| 0:20.0 | There are things that I love so much about Portugal and things that drive me so crazy about it. |
| 0:28.0 | And something will happen and I'll just be like, |
| 0:31.0 | I can't sound this country, I want to go back to the United States right now. |
| 0:36.1 | Or in that moment where you're like, oh my God, I love it here so much, I don't want to ever leave. |
| 0:41.6 | Welcome to how I don't want to ever leave. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to How To, I'm Charles Doohick. Each week we talk to listeners who are trying to figure out how to solve one of life's problems, |
| 0:52.0 | like how to be funnier or how to cook a perfect meal. |
| 0:57.0 | And then we do some research and we track down an expert and we get their advice. |
| 1:01.5 | This week we're talking to Elizabeth Collins who joined us on a Skype call from |
| 1:05.6 | Lisbon, Portugal and her location is actually a big part of why she reached out to |
| 1:10.4 | us. I am struggling with a huge decision of whether to move my family across |
| 1:18.8 | an ocean back to the United States. I am a 48 year old mom of two boys. I have a PhD in |
| 1:31.8 | social psychology and I moved to Portugal with my husband and one child in 2009 and since we've been here we had a second child and we ended up saying for nine years. |
| 1:45.0 | Our experience in Portugal has been wonderful, but at the same time I missed the United States. |
| 1:51.0 | So when you guys were thinking of moving to Lisbon the first time, nine years ago now, how did you decide to do that? |
| 1:59.6 | Looking back now, it's hard to say what we were feeling at the time but now it feels like it was just easy. |
| 2:06.8 | But now almost a decade later the question of whether to uproot their lives and move again |
| 2:15.0 | it's a lot harder. So there are good things and bad things about both countries and I feel extreme |
| 2:21.0 | ambivalence about both staying here and going back to the United States. |
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