Description

Plot twist are an exciting feature of our favourite stories but can be the most harrowing experiences of our actual lives.

In this episode, we reveal:

• The major plot twists of our lives and how we survived them
• The painful exercise in pushing through when life shoves us into the unknown
• How to exist in the story before growth, closure or resolution
• And why resilience looks much messier, sloppier and tear-stained than we ever expected

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Show notes:

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• Music by @nikitakarmen 

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• The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz (Book)
• The Sequel - Jean Hanff Korelitz (Book)
• I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman (Book)
• "Yes---what the American public always wants is a tragedy with a happy ending." William Dean Howells
• “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard
• "End Effects of Rated Life Quality: The James Dean Effect" by Ed Diener, Derrick Wirtz, and Shigehiro Oishi, published in Psychological Science in 2001. This research explores how the ending of a life influences the perceived desirability of that life.