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This is my piano arrangement of Astor Piazzolla "Oblivion" | Live at the Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music (April 29, 2011)

A. Piazzolla Oblivion / Arr. Igor Lipinski

She has called Brain Pickings, her invention and labor of love, a “human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.” What Maria Popova really delivers, to hundreds of thousands of people each day, is wisdom of the old-fashioned sort, presented in new-fashioned digital ways. She cross-pollinates — between philosophy and design, physics and poetry, the intellectual and the experiential. We meet Maria Popova at 30, and explore her gleanings, thus far, on what it means to lead a good life — intellectually, creatively, and spiritually.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/maria-popova-cartographer-of-meaning-in-a-digital-age/7580

Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital World

Victoria Bragin - F. Chopin: Polonaise E flat minor op. 26 no. 2

Writer and philosopher Alain de Botton joins Richard E. Grant in the Penguin studio to talk about his latest novel, The Course of Love. Alain brings along a number of objects that shaped his book, including his copy of Virginia Woolf’s essay The Docks of London and a recording of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, as he explains why he decided to turn his attention to what happens after happily ever after. Crushes and sulks come under Alain’s philosophical microscope as he explains why love is more dangerous than a nuclear power station and advocates schools for relationships. #PenguinPodcast

The Penguin Podcast: Alain de Botton with Richard E. Grant

Carmen: Seguidilla

The new field of epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and expressed differently through changes in environment and behavior. Rachel Yehuda is a pioneer in understanding how the effects of stress and trauma can transmit biologically, beyond cataclysmic events, to the next generation. She has studied the children of Holocaust survivors and of pregnant women who survived the 9/11 attacks. But her science is a form of power for flourishing beyond the traumas large and small that mark each of our lives and those of our families and communities.

On Being with Krista Tippett 

Rachel Yehuda — How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations

“When you love someone, you not only love them despite their fragility: but also because of it.”

One of the hardest things you have to deal with in life is watching someone close to you suffer from an illness. Especially if you’re a parent.

Although I’ve never had the experience of seeing my child suffer, I’ve had close loved ones go through the pain. 

It’s this time in life that either makes or breaks you. You have to be strong, not just for you, but also for them. 

That doesn’t mean you should discourage their vulnerability. You still need to embrace it, and there is a delicate balance in doing so. 

It’s also important to be there to support them and let them know that they are not a victim. They are still as strong as they want to be. 

If they fall into that victim mentality, it’s game over. They begin to lose their character in their illness.

To dive into this more, I brought back Dr. Jordan Peterson.


This is part two of my interview with Dr. Peterson. If you missed the last episode, go back and listen.

In this part of my interview, Jordan dove into what it was like watching his child suffer with an debilitating illness.

He talks about the lessons he learned as a professional, as well as a father. 

We discuss how his entire family was affected, and how he was able to teach is daughter to stay strong and vulnerable.

This is a powerful episode, and you need to listen to it because there are valuable lesson you will need to use one day. 

Learn how you can avoid the victim mentality when an illness hits, on Episode 665.


Some Questions I Ask:

What’s the biggest challenge you’ve had to overcome? (5:16)

How does mapping out your time play into the self authoring program? (9:09)

Did your daughter feel responsible for causing all of the pain? (13:18)

Is there anything that you wish you had done differently with your children? (21:22)

Did you ever doubt yourself, in terms of your ability? (26:56)

What’s your biggest fear now? (35:18)


In This Episode You Will Learn:

How to emotionally navigate seeing your child suffer (7:42)

How to focus on your career at the same time as dealing with a loved one’s illness (11:03)

What Jordan taught his daughter at an early age about her illness (16:06)

How Dr. Peterson feels about his daughter’s experience (23:48)

How his daughter’s health affected his career (30:27)

Dr. Peterson’s plan moving forward (40:22)

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Jordan Peterson on Pain and Suffering

Sonata 46 for violin and classical guitar

Sandra Haniszewska - Violin
Tomasz Kandulski - Classical Guitar

I was attending music school as an undergraduate in 1998 at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time, Matthew Gould (of Duo 46) was attending as a Doctoral student in guitar and living in Austin with his partner, violinist Beth Schneider. They had started Duo 46 maybe a few years before this. I was hanging out with them a lot in those days - just going over to their apartment or whatever. One day, Matt said to me, "Hey man, why don't you write us a piece?", and I said, "Umm.. ok."

At this point, I don't think they expected much. They hadn't had that many pieces written for them yet, and I was just starting as a composer, only in my second year of school. I decided I wanted to write something that would really show off what they could do technically and musically, and that would leave audiences breathless.

Not knowing how to begin, I lifted a line from a piece that I had just written - a solo flute piece titled "The Five Rings of Miyamoto Musashi". That became the opening line of the piece. Then, inspired by the one movement sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, I wrote the piece based on that line. The piece is full of things that I was just discovering and becoming influenced by at the time: baroque sonatas, renaissance lute music (hence the "lute" tuning of the guitar), the tangos of Piazzolla as well as the ever-present rock and heavy metal that has always been part of my music. Since Duo 46 premiered the piece in 1999, Sonata 46 has become one of my most frequently and widely performed pieces.

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Sonata 46 (Haniszewska-Kandulski Duo)

What if the first question we asked on a date were, "How are you crazy? I'm crazy like this"? Philosopher and writer Alain de Botton's essay "Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person" was one of the most-read articles in The New York Times in recent years. As people and as a culture, he says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. Nowhere do we realistically teach ourselves and our children how love deepens and stumbles, survives and evolves over time, and how that process has much more to do with ourselves than with what is right or wrong about our partner. The real work of love is not in the falling, but in what comes after.

On Being with Krista Tippett

Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships

Canon in D - Pachelbel

Men of all ages say Richard Rohr has given them a new way into spiritual depth and religious thought through his writing and retreats. This conversation with the Franciscan spiritual teacher delves into the expansive scope of his ideas: from male formation and what he calls “father hunger” to why contemplation is as magnetic to people now, including millennials, as it’s ever been.

Richard Rohr is a Franciscan writer, teacher, and the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His many books include “Falling Upward,” “Divine Dance,” and most recently, “The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe.”

This interview originally aired in April 2017. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

Richard Rohr — Growing Up Men

Lennon Flowers and Rev. Jennifer Bailey embody a particular wisdom of millennials around grief, loss, and faith. Together they created The People’s Supper, which uses shared meals to build trust and connection among people of different identities and perspectives. Since 2017, they have hosted more than 1,500 meals. In the words they use, the practices they cultivate (some of which we’ve collected on onbeing.org), and the way they think, Flowers and Bailey issue an invitation not to safe space, but to brave space. 

Rev. Jennifer Bailey is co-founder of The People’s Supper and the founder and executive director of Faith Matters Network. She is also an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and her writing appears regularly in publications including “Sojourners” and The Huffington Post. 

Lennon Flowers is co-founder of The People’s Supper and the co-founder and executive director of The Dinner Party. She is also an Ashoka Fellow and an Aspen Ideas Scholar. She has written for CNN, “YES!,” “Forbes,” Open Democracy, EdWeek, and “Fast Company.” 

Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

Jennifer Bailey and Lennon Flowers — An Invitation to Brave Space

Iliya Rashkovskiy performs Chopin's e- minor piano concerto on November 11th, 2011 at Gorzów Philharmonic concert hall. Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra under Piotr Borkowski conducting. Live recording.
Iliya Rashkovskiy that 2011 year was a 3rd prize winner of the A. Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. Later he conquered the 1st prize at Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan.
The new, very fresh Polish orchestra, established just few months before this performance, showed great musicianship and yet maturity. The concert master for that memorable evening was Tomasz Tomaszewski - 1st concert master of Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Fr. CHOPIN - Piano concerto e minor 2nd mov.

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships

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