Amanda Knox On: Finding Meaning in Tragedy, Not Needing an Apology, and Refusing to Own What Other People Think
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Amanda Knox On: Finding Meaning in Tragedy, Not Needing an Apology, and Refusing to Own What Other People Think

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 20261 hr 7 min
  • Interview
  • Relationships & psychology

The famed exoneree on making life worth living every day, flipping the narrative on the bad things, and the ancient Japanese practice of kintsugi. Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, comedian, and bestselling author of Waiting to Be Heard and FREE: My Search for Meaning. She hosts the podcast Hard Knox and advocates for criminal justice reform and media ethics. In this episode we talk about: The one question Amanda Knox asks herself whenever something bad happens Why understanding someone who wronged you can matter more than forgiving them What a centuries-old Japanese art...

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Hello everybody, welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm your host Dan Harris. If you're watching, you'll see that the backdrop is a little different today. I'm in what I'm semi-facetiously calling 10% Happier East, which is my wife's family's beach house in Montauk on the easternmost tip of Long Island. Anyway, let's get to the actual episode. I don't know about you,

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and I think this is just unavoidable. We all go through shit in our lives. And the question is how are you going to deal with it? As my longtime friend and meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein likes to say, don't waste your suffering. But here's the thing, speaking personally, I often waste my suffering. I just kind of revert to rumination or regrets or resignation.

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So I'm really interested to talk to somebody who's had no small amount of involuntary suffering in her life, by which I mean suffering imposed on her. She is Amanda Knox. I'm sure many of you are familiar with her.

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