Grit is legendary for having been developed with people who are pursuing a let level performance in athletics and music. If you have that toward something that you kind of really want to stop doing as soon as you can, then when you find something wearey like, oh, this, it's like a whole different game. I think the that i did get from violin is an ability to withstand, like stamina, withstand pain. How much pain can you end? That's, that's particularly in kind of ... any professional life, but certainly journalism.
Graduating Oberline, Alix Spiegel landed in Chicago and stumbled upon a help-wanted ad that would lead to an internship with soon-to-be-legendary radio producer, Ira Glass. A year later, Spiegel became one of the founding producers of This American Life, where she, Ira, and a small, devoted team would change the face of public radio, storytelling, journalism, and, eventually podcasting. She eventually left to work on NPR's Science Desk for a decade and build more of a life outside radio. Then, January 2015, Spiegel joined forces with journalist Lulu Miller to co-host Invisibilia, a series from NPR about the unseen forces that control human behavior — our ideas, beliefs, assumptions, and thoughts. Invisibilia interweaves personal stories with fascinating psychological and brain science, in a way that ultimately makes you see your own life differently. Her work on human behavior has also appeared in The New Yorker magazine and The New York Times.
You can find Alix Spiegel at: Invisibilia : https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia
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