Q&A with Tara Westover - Author of "Educated" - Mormon Stories Ep. 903

Описание: We were honored to host a live Q&A and book signing with New York Times bestselling-author Tara Westover on March 29, 2018 at the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City.

Tara is the author of the book Educated. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. After that first encounter with education, she pursued learning for a decade, graduating magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and subsequently winning a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014.

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Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
02:14 Motivation for writing
04:34 Was it therapeutic to write the book?
09:31 Positive and negative liberty
13:48 Major components constraining positive liberty
19:29 Nuanced view of religion
22:32 What has feminism become for you?
27:40 What was interesting about Mormon intellectual history
31:35 How have women from Mormon history influenced you?
37:18 Space in the LDS church for more cultural Mormons?
39:07 Teaching yourself how to write
44:21 What would your advice be to students to find motivation?
47:21 Interactions with prof. Steinberg
48:16 Plans after this thesis?
50:35 Thoughts about the traditional family
51:27 How to look critically at your belief system
54:55 How find your own resilience
1:05:16 John asking Tara's family what it's like to see your niece become a global phenomenon
1:08:54 Where did the strength come when you father offered a blessing?
1:14:52 What do you do to have fun?
1:16:12 Current day job
1:16:35 Do you feel like an advocate for people restricted in the LDS church?
1:19:08 Have you felt impulses to evangelize people out of the church?
1:22:03 Can people with mental illnesses be totally excused for behavior?
1:24:09 Any residual PTSD from the abuse?
1:25:08 Experience at BYU? Fondest or worst experience?
1:26:09 Reading on book tours? Tara reading from her book
1:34:00 How to respond to a victim?
1:36:24 What to do and not to do when a victim comes forward?
1:42:13 Who are you now?
1:45:12 What can they do to bring you back in their life?
1:45:38 Closing words

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