#32 Willing to be wrong

and the impossible responsibility to our future selves

Earlier this year we interviewed Elizabeth Gilbert on our podcast, Quitted. Elizabeth, or Liz as those of us (borderline creeps who do not know her personally but completely imagine we do) call her, was coming on to talk about quitting stuff, and in our investigative work preparing for the interview Emily found an old essay Liz had written about the difference between surrendering and quitting—in 2014. When I read it, knowing Liz very well like I do but also absolutely not at all, I told Emily I didn't think Liz would write that same essay today. It was a bit punitive and written in the voice of an all knowing version of herself, and when we eventually read it back to her and asked her about it, my suspicions were confirmed: The Liz of 2022 would not write what the Liz of 2014 had, at least concerning the subject of quitting.

Yesterday morning I woke up to another shitty article written about me. I knew this one was coming because the woman who wrote it tried to get an interview with …