TED Talks Daily Book Club: You are not alone in your loneliness | Jonny Sun (re-release)
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🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Being open and vulnerable with your loneliness, sadness and fear can help you find comfort and feel less alone, says writer and artist Jonny Sun. In an honest talk filled with his signature illustrations, Sun shares how telling stories about feeling like an outsider helped him tap into an unexpected community and find a tiny sliver of light in the darkness.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm your host, Elise Hume. |
| 0:13.8 | Happy Sunday. |
| 0:15.0 | Today we have one final talk worth thinking about while reading TEDx speaker Oliver Bergkman's book, Meditations for Mortals, |
| 0:22.9 | four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts. We're reading it because we're |
| 0:28.5 | in the midst of our first ever virtual read-along in the lead-up to our TED Talks Daily Live |
| 0:33.4 | Book Club conversation happening Tuesday, November 4th. Throughout his book, Oliver Bergman |
| 0:39.1 | asks us to sit with ourselves, which is work that can definitely make us feel lonely. |
| 0:45.1 | It made us think of a beautiful talk from 2019 from screenwriter, author, and artist Johnny's |
| 0:50.8 | son, who alongside his signature illustrations tells us we aren't actually alone |
| 0:56.5 | even in our loneliness. He shares how he learned that being open and vulnerable in these moments |
| 1:02.5 | and exploring the sadness and fear that he felt once actually led him to a sense of comfort. |
| 1:09.3 | As Oliver shares in his book, |
| 1:10.9 | there's profound beauty |
| 1:11.8 | that can come from embracing vulnerability |
| 1:13.7 | and our fears |
| 1:14.9 | and all of life's imperfections. |
| 1:17.6 | You can follow me on Instagram |
| 1:18.8 | at Elise Hu, |
| 1:20.3 | that's E-L-I-S-E-W-O, |
| 1:23.2 | or find me on TEDs Instagram |
| 1:25.1 | where I'll be sharing more thoughts like these |
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