Steven Petrow: ...we can age in our own way

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🗓️ 20 June 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Joining us on this episode is award-winning journalist and author Steven Petrow. You may know Steven’s work from The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, All Things Considered and many other media outlets. His TED Talk called, “Three Ways to Practice Civility” has been seen close to two million times.

Steven’s latest book is for everyone facing aging and the people—their adult children, in particular,—who love them. It’s called, Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old: A Highly Judgmental, Unapologetically Honest Accounting of All the Things Our Elders Are Doing Wrong .

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:16.3	And joining us on this episode is award-winning journalist and author Stephen Petro.
0:20.9	You may know Stephen's work from The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, All Things Considered, and many other media outlets.
0:29.1	And his TED Talk called Three Ways to Practice Civility has been seen close to two million times.
0:34.9	Stephen's latest book is for everyone facing aging and the people, their adult children in
0:39.9	particular, who love them.
0:41.5	It's called Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old, a highly judgmental, unapologetically
0:48.0	honest accounting of all the things our elders are doing wrong.
0:52.1	Stephen, we thank you so much for joining us.
0:55.9	It is my pleasure. Thank you so much for joining us. It is my pleasure.
1:01.5	Thank you so much. I absolutely love the title of the book. And I'm wondering if you could share with us how the book and the title came about. About 15 years ago, I was a little bit north of 50
1:08.3	and my parents were getting into their 70s. And I started to see that
1:13.4	they were making decisions that didn't seem so wise or put a little bit more judgmentally.
1:19.3	It seemed wrong, in my opinion. And since my mother just loved her home decor and she wouldn't
1:26.2	pick up any of the throw rugs even after my
1:28.3	dad started tripping on them. And then she became not such a good driver and was starting to hit
1:34.6	other cars and then close to people, but she would not stop driving. So I started penning this list.
1:42.4	It got kind of massive. And one of the things that I do in my work as a journalist, I kind of take my person in life and then I write about it.
1:50.5	So this became an essay in the New York Times with a much less judgmental or sassy title.
1:56.5	It was just called Things I Will Do Differently when I get old.
2:00.0	And I found, though that it was quite a
2:02.6	popular essay. It was on the most read for about two weeks. And people started sending me in their
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