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Transcripts for CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS 20211010 17:53:00

i m not a highly introspective person and i dealt with covid the way i do with most challenges, making the best of the situation, taking care of my family, exploring new opportunities. i jumped at the chance presented by having more flow time to make sense of the pandemic by writing a book about it and its consequences. the writing was a kind of theraphy for me, but then in the midst of the pandemic my mother died around 8,000 miles away in india, and that was a brutal reminder that however much you might try to deal with life by constantly doing, moving, acting, sometimes the key is not what you do in the external realm but how you feel within. i recall once when i was very young hearing an indian philosopher, a guru-type, explain that the western europe world had spent accept industries focused on how to solve problems by controlling the external world, taking nature, building machines, organizing activities. the eastern tradition, he not,

Transcripts for CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS 20211010 14:54:00

nature, building machines, organizing activities. the eastern that radition, he n, was less about forcibly changing the world than coming to terms with it using techniques like medication and mindfulness. there are things in life that are best handled not by trying to bend them to your will but by bending one s will itself, which is often a harder task. i also discovered during this pandemic, like many of us, the power of technology and of its limits. we would not have been able to put on this show every week if not for the information revolution. but at a deeper personal level, the screen has its limitations. technology can enable a low-grade connection, but physical proximity using not just sight and sound but touch, builds intimacy in a way that a computer or phone cannot. i ended up watching mother s burial by video link, and i felt sadder than i could have

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