Pain and Purpose: Lessons From Bruce Lee and Frida Kahlo
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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The days are shorter, colder and 2020 isn’t over. Like you, we’re looking for inspiration to sustain us, so we turned to Shannon Lee and Arianna Davis who are passing on the teachings of great icons Bruce Lee and Frida Kahlo — timeless figures that we continually learn from decades after their deaths.
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| 0:00.0 | We're in the thick of it, the days are getting shorter, the temperature's colder, and for me this is always the time when I'm looking for inspiration, |
| 0:10.0 | the kind that sustains me through the winter drabs. |
| 0:13.2 | And for this last episode of the season, |
| 0:15.7 | we're going to talk with the authors of three new dynamic books |
| 0:19.2 | that feed the soul and remind us of what we're capable of. |
| 0:22.4 | To freedom! To freedom! |
| 0:24.0 | There's this scene from the 2004 film Frida, |
| 0:30.0 | where a doctor forbids the iconic artist, played by Salma Hayek, |
| 0:34.0 | from attending what is the first art showing in Frida's home country of Mexico, |
| 0:39.0 | something that she's been wanting her whole life. |
| 0:41.0 | If the bronchitis gets worse it will turn into pneumonia. |
| 0:44.0 | Frida under no circumstances that you to leave this bed. |
| 0:48.0 | Frida was sick not only with bronchitis, by this time she'd been battling the side effects of polio and a |
| 0:55.1 | freak trolley accident that left her unable to bear children. |
| 0:59.0 | Frida spent her entire adult life in pain and it's only now that I've lived a little |
| 1:04.6 | that I understand how pain both mental and physical can actually be a driving force |
| 1:10.3 | to create some of the best work of our lives. |
| 1:13.3 | We're going to talk about this and more with Ariana Davis. |
| 1:16.4 | She's the author of a new book called What Would Frida Do, A Guide to Living Boldly. |
| 1:21.9 | I'm also going to talk about how another iconic figure, Bruce Lee, yes, |
| 1:25.9 | the Bruce Lee. Work through his pain to build a legacy and in part life lessons that still |
| 1:31.3 | resonate to this day. His daughter Shannon Lee joins us to talk |
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