37. "… Open thine eyes. I am still here, just older.”

37. "… Open thine eyes. I am still here, just older.”

From The Bold Acting Podcast by Reflections from Jason Bryden's More-than-just-an-Acting-Class class in Toronto.

September 24, 2024 · 6 min

About this episode

The episode discusses reframing challenges in life through the lens of fiction and personal experiences.

How to be a Person is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. In Judith Kerr’s YA novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (based on her escape from Nazi Germany as a child) she writes about how leaving her home and moving to Switzerland, Paris and finally London was a great adventure. It was not, of course, for her parents. They managed to keep it together under terrible circumstances and shielded their children from much of the horrors of displacement due to war. This reframing of one’s situation is a worthwhile exercise for us, also. To treat the difficulties like a picnic. Look forward to the challenges life throws you for they are guaranteed and evergreen. Try pursuing hardship instead of happiness for happiness is fleeting. Hardship, not so much. Look for the obstacles. Become good at smiling in the face of adversity. Just try this on for a while. Audition this approach. You can always go back to the way you did things before if it doesn’t serve you. This idea was reinforced by reading a work of fiction. Novels access a different part of the brain. It is the same part that is responsible for nuance, subtext…

People in this episode

Host: Jason Bryden

Topics covered

  • resilience
  • adversity
  • fiction
  • personal growth
  • perspective

Keywords

  • Judith Kerr
  • When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
  • resilience
  • adversity
  • personal growth
  • fiction
  • life challenges

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Books & works: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

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