Khaled Hosseini, Scott Turow and Charles Krauthammer: Second Lives

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4.6 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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If you’ve ever dreamed of reinventing yourself, take inspiration from these three writers. Each one followed a traditional career path, before turning the page to pick up pen & paper. Khaled Hosseini, once a doctor, became author of international bestseller “The Kite Runner”. Scott Turow, attorney at law, became the master of legal thrillers such as “Presumed Innocent.” And psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer became a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper and magazine columnist. Each speaks, in this episode, about finding one’s true passion, and pursuing it with zeal. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2018

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0:00.0	The poet Wallace Stevens famously spent his career working as an insurance executive.
0:13.4	Arthur Conan Doyle was a surgeon.
0:15.9	Anthony Trollope was a postal clerk.
0:18.9	There is a long and storied history of authors who spent much of their lives doing something else besides
0:26.3	being authors, especially before the proliferation of professional creative writing programs.
0:32.3	Well on this episode you're going to hear from professional creative writing programs.
0:32.8	Well, in this episode, you're going to hear from two doctors
0:36.4	and a lawyer, all who led incredibly successful
0:40.2	second lives on the printed page. Maybe there's still hope for us all.
0:45.0	The reinvention of Khaled Hosseini, Scott Terrow, and Charles Krauthammer
0:51.0	on this
0:53.0	a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance
0:57.0	from the Academy of Achievement.
0:59.0	I'm Alice Winkler.
1:01.0	Had a man, this child is gifted.
1:05.0	And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:07.0	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity,
1:11.0	and you don't take it, you may never have another job.
1:13.8	It all was so clear.
1:15.3	It was just like the picture started to form itself.
1:18.4	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light,
1:25.0	death over life.
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