Delight and Joy Are Survival Mechanisms and Acts of Resistance | Ross Gay

Delight and Joy Are Survival Mechanisms and Acts of Resistance | Ross Gay

New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.

---


How rethinking these often twee concepts can change your life and maybe the world.


Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry, Ross has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy was released in 2022, and his newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2023.


In this episode we talk about:

  • What got Ross interested in the subject of delight
  • How noting delight can be a tool for counter programming against our negativity bias
  • Why Ross argues that there is an ethical component to delight
  • The benefits of writing by hand
  • How both using a smartphone and rushing can be delight blockers
  • The difference between delight and joy
  • What he means when he refers to the "offenses of joy"
  • And the connection between grief and joy



Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/ross-gay


Episoder(1016)

Ali Smith

Ali Smith

Ali Smith goes into some of the toughest neighborhoods in one of the toughest cities in America, and teaches yoga and meditation to troubled and at-risk school kids. And the results have been incredib...

18 Mai 201648min

Gretchen Rubin (Our Long-Lost Pilot Episode)

Gretchen Rubin (Our Long-Lost Pilot Episode)

In our pilot episode, which we recorded back in January before we moved into a fancy radio studio and had any clue what we were doing (this part hasn't changed much), Dan invited author and speaker Gr...

13 Mai 201643min

RuPaul

RuPaul

When he was 28 years old, RuPaul Andre Charles found himself broke and living on his little sister's couch in Los Angeles. "It was a really, really, really dark, dark period for me." That's when RuPau...

12 Mai 201637min

Steve Armstrong

Steve Armstrong

Enlightenment (or, more specifically, exactly how one gets enlightened) has become a somewhat taboo subject. For years, American meditation teachers have largely avoided discussing what's known as "th...

11 Mai 20161h 12min

Thupten Jinpa

Thupten Jinpa

Thupten Jinpa may be best known for being the Dalai Lama's longtime English-language translator. But now Jinpa is working to get his own message across. In his new book, "A Fearless Heart," Jinpa touc...

4 Mai 201659min

Lama Tsomo

Lama Tsomo

Lama Tsomo is one of the first American women to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist lama, or spiritual teacher. Born Linda Pritzker, she is part of the family that built the Hyatt hotel chain. But Lama...

27 Apr 20161h 1min

Leigh Brasington

Leigh Brasington

Leigh Brasington has been practicing meditation for decades and is one of the most prominent American teachers of Jhana meditation. The Jhanas are a set of altered states of consciousness associated w...

22 Apr 201655min

Margot Bingham

Margot Bingham

Actress and singer-songwriter Margot Bingham has moved from playing the role of jazz singer Daughter Maitland in HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" to a highly-respected detective in ABC's "The Family," but in ...

20 Apr 201648min

Populært innen Helse

lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
fastlegen
hvordan-har-du-det-mann
rss-gukild-johaug
psykodrama
relasjonspodden-med-dora-thorhallsdottir-kjersti-idem
rss-garne-damer
leger-om-livet
foreldreradet
bak-fasaden-en-reise-i-livet-med-sykepleier-ine
morten-ramm-lar-kakla-ga-til-du-sovner
rss-lopedrommen
hormonelle-frida
klimaks
sinnsyn
g-punktet
rss-sunn-okonomi
hjernesterk
helsetipspodden
hverdagspsyken