Life Classes from Taylor Swift, Conquering Anxiousness, Teaching Teenagers, Profession Reinvention, Supposedly Homosexual Bulls, Your Shadow Aspect, and Extra — Soman Chainani (#720)


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Soman Chainani (@somanc) is the bestselling writer of The Faculty for Good & Evil ebook collection, which has offered greater than 4 million copies, been translated into 35 languages throughout six continents, and been tailored into a serious movement image from Netflix that debuted at #1 in additional than 80 international locations.

Soman’s ebook of retold fairy tales, Beasts and Magnificence, debuted on The New York Occasions Finest Sellers Checklist—his seventh ebook in a row to take action—and is slated to be a restricted tv collection from Sony’s 3000 Photos, with Soman writing and govt producing. Collectively, his books have been on the New York Occasions Finest Sellers Checklist for greater than 50 weeks.

Soman has an A.B. in English and American Literature from Harvard College and an MFA in Movie from Columbia College. He’s a recipient of the Solar Valley Writers Fellowship, and he has been nominated for the Waterstone Prize for Kids’s Literature and been named to the Out100.

Soman has visited greater than 800 colleges all over the world, sharing his message that studying is the trail to a greater life.

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#720: Life Classes from Taylor Swift, Conquering Anxiousness, Teaching Teenagers, Profession Reinvention, Supposedly Homosexual Bulls, Your Shadow Aspect, and Extra — Soman Chainani


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Hear my first dialog with Soman Chainani:

#220: Soman Chainani — The Faculty for Good and Evil

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Begin

04:54 Intro

07:31 Observe the movement

24:02 “Your bull could be homosexual”

36:37 The work of visible artist Christopher Marley

40:36 Teaching Technology Alpha

59:31 Expertise with ketamine

01:08:13 “Shadow Self” vs “The Double”

01:13:53 “Quarterback”

01:17:35 Profession classes from Taylor Swift

01:29:55 Cross-collar relationship

01:35:15 Language of {couples}

01:36:59 Hookups

01:41:37 St. Louis

01:43:00 Allergy symptoms

01:48:41 Parting ideas

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