The meaning of home – and the joy of traveling | Pico Iyer

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🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the TED Talks Daily summer book club, a series featuring talks and interviews to inspire your next great read. Up first, a meditation on the meaning of home, the joy of traveling and the serenity of standing still from writer Pico Iyer. After the talk, Pico shares a book that has stayed with him: "Letter to a Stranger" by Colleen Kinder. If you'd like to hear more from Pico, you can take his upcoming TED Course "How to take a life-changing journey." You'll learn how to set an intention and choose a destination, be fully present while you travel, navigate cultural differences and live differently when you return home. Enroll at tedtalks.social/journey.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:07.3	essayist and travel writer Pico Eyre speaks so movingly about how to find a home and a
0:12.9	sense of belonging in places across the globe.
0:16.3	It was the central idea of his 2013 archive Ted Talk, which we're sharing with you today.
0:23.0	After the talk, he sits down with me to dig a little deeper into how travel has shaped
0:27.0	his idea of home.
0:28.9	He also picked a book for our Summer Book Club series.
0:31.8	It's a collection of essays called Letter to a Stranger.
0:34.6	Essays to the ones who haunt us, edited by Colleen Kinder.
0:39.5	Okay, enjoy.
0:43.2	Thank you to Etti Had Airways for sponsoring today's episode.
0:46.3	Etti Had Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, understands the
0:50.2	impact that flying has on the environment.
0:52.7	That's why they're taking a strategic approach to sustainable aviation.
0:55.7	They were recently awarded Environmental Airline of the Year for 2022 and have launched a dedicated
1:00.5	sustainability focus corporate program designed to facilitate and deliver corporate partner
1:04.8	sustainability goals.
1:06.4	Visit httpconsciouschoices.ettihad.com
1:12.1	Where do you come from?
1:13.9	It's such a simple question, but these days, of course, simple questions bring ever more
1:19.2	complicated answers.
1:21.2	People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and
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