Humility as a Pathway: Transforming Grievance into Dialogue w/ Frank Bruni
Raising Good Humans
Dear Media, Aliza Pressman
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Frank Bruni joins us in today’s episode to discuss the transformative power of humility in our everyday lives and interactions. We explore the escalation of grievances in society—how complaints that once sparked necessary change have morphed into persistent sources of division. Frank Bruni shares insights on the potential of humility to reshape our conversations, reduce cultural divides, and foster a healthier environment for ourselves and our children.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Raising Good Humans. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Dr. Eliza Pressman and today's episode is with the brilliant author Frank Bruny |
| 0:18.0 | who's been a prominent journalist for more than three decades including more than 25 years of the New York Times. |
| 0:25.2 | And he is also a professor at Duke University where he teaches in the School of Public |
| 0:32.0 | Policy and he has a new. where he teaches in the School of Public Policy, |
| 0:33.0 | and he has a new book out. |
| 0:35.8 | It is so timely called The Age of Grievance. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm so excited to share this episode with you as we navigate a time when it feels like we have to figure out some balance between being able to do the enormous good of saying when there are |
| 0:56.8 | urgently moral changes that need to occur, |
| 1:01.5 | well at the same time, being able to step back and say, wait a second, |
| 1:08.8 | everything can't be a grievance and everything cannot be so highly charged that we stop hearing, we stop listening, |
| 1:16.7 | we stop talking to each other, we stop being able to have reasonable conversations. |
| 1:23.2 | And so what we see so much of are the extremes. |
| 1:27.7 | And we're raising kids at a time |
| 1:29.3 | when we want to make sure that that is not their model and that is not their capacity. |
| 1:35.0 | I loved this conversation. |
| 1:37.0 | I can't wait to share it with you. |
| 1:39.0 | This is a little bit different than my usual. |
| 1:41.0 | As always, I love when you take the time to write a review and tell me |
| 1:45.1 | what you liked or DM me with private constructive feedback on at |
| 1:50.7 | Raising Good Humans Podcast and don't forget I also have a free |
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