Ep. 28 - Getting Curious with Don Martin

Don Martin is a writer, poet, and host of the Head On Fire podcast in which he interviews experts in overlooked fields about subjects you either think you already know everything about or have never considered.

Today we talk to Don about his unquenchable curiosity and how his search for answers to life's biggest and smallest questions has helped him connect, grow and heal his way through life's many challenges with greater empathy, self-awareness, acceptance, and joy.

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Quotable:

"Learning that, the importance of the idea that 'why' is always a more valuable question than 'what,' Is the only way that I have been able to transition into a successful adult in all the things that a successful adult needs to be able to get and make friends, to be able to network properly, to be able to have a social circle, to be able to be the advocate that I, I hope to be, that I aspire to be."

"I was able to pull the lens back and integrate all of those different whys into one kind of acceptance of the fact that I'm never gonna have an answer. That was the first time in my entire life when I had to say, 'that's enough.' Having some really good whys is going to have to be enough, because there is no right answer here."

"Social media has a lot of bad uses, but one of the great things about social media is that it's helping people get a window, into other people's lives. I've talked about this , before I wrote about it in my last book, talking about the idea of gates versus windows. Sometimes there's a gate, where gatekeepers can invite you in for a time that you can learn and maybe take something back. But then there's also just windows into other people's lives where you can learn, get new information, kind of just see how other people live."

Hosted by:

Marta Kagan

Stef Ziegler

About our Guest:

Don Martin is an author who writes books for curious readers that want to believe the world is filled with magic. His most recent non-fiction work, The Dabbler's Guide to Witchcraft (Simon & Schuster 2021), became a viral hit online. His most recent collection of poetry, while I wait to be a god again, became an Amazon bestseller. He also hosts the podcast Head On Fire where he speaks to experts in misunderstood or overlooked fields. He lives with his husband on a horse ranch just outside Chicago.

Links:

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