2022-04-14
1 小时 4 分钟I think love is the greatest liberating tool ever, and my goal is to leverage it more and to leverage the understanding of it for my sons so that they can navigate life unimpeded by narratives that really don't belong to them.
So I've always been kind of fascinated by the idea of snap decisions or these things that happen in just a moment, how some can lead to amazing outcomes and others can literally destroy lives in the blink of an eye.
What you so often find is that nothing actually ever happens in a moment.
There is no real snap, but rather a series of experiences leading up to it, often years in the making, where they're as much the authors of the moment as the instance itself.
And sometimes when those moments lead to something you regret for a lifetime, then you get to the next question, what is recoverable, redeemable?
How do you make that happen?
And who gets to write the story of your own reclamation?
This is the powerful subtext of my conversation with Shaka Senghor, New York Times bestselling author of righting my wrongs, life, death and Redemption in an American Prison.
A leading voice on criminal justice reform, tech investor, head of diversity, equality and inclusion at Trip Actions, former MIT Media lab director's fellow and member of Oprah Winfrey Super Soul 100.
He took another young man's life at the age of 19, served the next two decades almost in prison, seven in solitary, and through a series of unexpected awakenings, began to unwind the pieces of his life and begin the process of understanding and reassembling and eventually redemption and reclamation.
In the decades since his release from prison, he has distorted and worked with nonprofits seeking to lift people up, visited the White House, been interviewed by Trevor Noah and Oprah Winfrey, and given award winning TED talks, all with the goal of building a more inspired, just and fulfilling future for all.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
Just so curious about so many different moments in your life.
And I really want to dive into some of the ideas that you have been working with and sharing over the years.
Now, let's take a little bit of a step back in time because there's a lot that set up the moment that you've come to in your life and the ideas that you've been working with and the creative things that you have been exploring.
I know you describe yourself, you grew up in Detroit as a curious and precocious kid.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, when I reflect back on my childhood, I think about all these random things and a lot of times what really sparks that is when I'm watching jeopardy.