Kate Bowler on Memento Mori and Falling in Love with Fate | This Decision—This Process—Will Change Your Life
The Daily Stoic6 Okt 2021

Kate Bowler on Memento Mori and Falling in Love with Fate | This Decision—This Process—Will Change Your Life

Ryan reads today’s meditation and talks to author and professor Kate Bowler about her recent book Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, her battle after being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, the similarities between hope and fear, the importance of stillness, how the prospect of death concentrates the mind, and more.

Kate Bowler, PhD is a New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and a professor at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we’re capable of change. Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, which received widespread media attention and a lot of puns about being #blessed.

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