The Book of Charlie with David Von Drehle

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to live a long and happy life? David Von Drehle has spent 40 years covering big stories and important figures as an award-winning journalist. But the best lessons turned out to be right next door. David’s latest book, “The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109 Year-Old Man,” is a best-seller about resilience, American history, and what it means to live well. This is… A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	Tune into the new podcast, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much, like Easy Listening, but for fiction.
0:08.0	If you've overdosed on bad news, we invite you into a world where the glimmers of goodness in everyday life are all around you.
0:16.0	I'm Catherine Nikolai and I'm an architect of Cozy.
0:20.0	Come spend some time where everyone is welcome and the default is kindness.
0:24.0	Listen, relax, enjoy.
0:27.0	Listen to stories from the Village of Nothing Much,
0:29.0	on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:32.0	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.0	Walter Isaacson set out to write about a world-changing genius in Elon Musk and found a man addicted
0:40.8	to chaos and conspiracy.
0:42.3	I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks.
0:49.0	The book launched a thousand hot takes, so I sat down with Isakson to try to get past the noise.
0:53.6	I like the fact that people who say I'm not as tough on musk as I should be are always
0:58.2	using anecdotes from my book to show why we should be tough on musk.
1:02.0	Join me Evan Ratliff, for On Musk with Walter Isixon.
1:06.0	Listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:10.0	Join us for the can't miss live music event of the holiday season, our I Heart Radio
1:16.7	Jingle Ball special coming to ABC December 21st starring Share Olivia, Share, Olivia Rodrigo, Ciza, Nyle Horan,
1:25.3	Sabrina Carpenter, One Republic, Jelly Roll, Big Time Rush, and more.
1:30.3	Tune in to the I-Heart Radio Jingle Ball Special on Thursday, December 21st, at 8-7
1:35.8	Central on ABC, and stream next day on Hulu. What if you spent an entire career looking for answers, only to discover that so many of the good ones were right next door.
1:55.0	Well, that's exactly what happened to David Vondrelli.
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