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Wise Habits Reminders

156: Jesse Browner

December 13, 2016 Leave a Comment

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This week we talk to Jesse Browner

Jesse Browner is the author of the novels The Uncertain Hour and Everything Happens Today. His latest book is the memoir How Did I Get Here: Making Peace with the Road Not Taken.

Browner has also translated books by Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard and Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as Frédéric Vitoux’s award-winning Céline: A Biography. More recently, he translated Matthieu Ricard’s Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill and Frédéric Mitterrand’s The Bad Life.

His freelance writing includes contributions to Nest magazine, Food & Wine, Gastronomica, New York magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Salon.com, Slate.com and others.

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In This Interview, Jesse Browner and I Discuss…

  • The One You Feed parable
  • His new book, How Did I Get Here? Making Peace with the Road Not Taken
  • That in our “unlived lives” we are always happier and more fulfilled
  • Making peace with the choices we’ve made in our lives
  • How to approach the question, “what if” by asking instead, “what is”
  • That the most persistent monkey on an artists back is happiness
  • The belief that happiness whitewashes all the things that makes us unique
  • Bet on the likelihood that you’re not a genius and that you can make meaning in your life in other ways than your art
  • Why bet against yourself?
  • To work hard at something you love: you’ll be the best you can
  • His life’s motto: Work and Love
  • How he’s been called “the angry Buddhist” by his children
  • The importance of and remedy in being more deeply involved in the life you have

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