The Mythology of Personal Responsibility

the goop podcast

Gwyneth Paltrow

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Host Elise Loehnen sits down with Pulitzer Prize–winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn to talk about their new book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. It’s a story about our country that begins in rural Yamhill, Oregon—where Kristof grew up—and moves to the Dakotas and Oklahoma and New York and Virginia and everywhere in between. Through vivid personal reporting and the lives of real Americans, Kristof and WuDunn explore working-class America and the all ways our system has neglected and damaged these communities. They expose the mythology of personal responsibility, the tightrope that families have been forced to walk, and the devastating effect of one small slip when you have no safety net. They remind us that no community is “other,” and they show us that even issues as large and complex as addiction, homelessness, and incarceration are not unsolvable. We have the toolboxes; now we need the will. “There’s obviously no silver bullet,” says Kristof. “But we know how to make a big difference.” (For more, see The goop Podcast hub.) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Elise Loonon, co-host with Gwyneth of the Goop podcast.
0:08.1	Today's guests are Nick Kristoff and Cheryl Wooten.
0:11.9	But before I get to them, I want to thank our friends at Sikara, who made today's episode
0:16.2	possible.
0:21.7	Our food editor, Caitlin, has been working hard to turn out cooking tips and tricks and
0:26.1	recipes of all kinds to help us get through this quarantine.
0:30.0	And a lot of us are getting to know our kitchens a little better.
0:33.5	But there are always days or weeks where I don't feel the inspiration to cook, or have the
0:37.8	energy or the ingredients on hand.
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1:24.3	Don't hold anything too tightly.
1:26.6	Just wish for it, want it, let it come from the intention of real truth for you, and then
1:33.4	let it go.
1:35.2	For me, our soul is like it's unbound, it's limitless, but we will use words to limit
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