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Life Skills by Rookie

Written by: Tavi Gevinson
Narrated by: Tavi Gevinson
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  • Tavi Gevinson founded the online magazine Rookie in 2011 when she was fifteen years old. She wanted to create a space for teens that was free of messaging telling them who they should be and instead celebrated them for who they were. Rookie attracted a thriving community until it folded in 2018. Its now-grown readers still seek out its archive and book series today.

    In this podcast, Tavi revives Rookie’s popular Life Skills column with brand new, encouraging but never prescriptive advice for coping with messy, personal conundrums like: How do I talk to people if I suck at talking to people? How can I embrace conflict instead of dreading it? How can I be creative if I’m scared? How do I talk back to my inner critic? How do I know if it’s time to end a friendship? How do I manage uncertainty? How can I create more pleasure and fabulousness in my life? And why are all of these things somehow so hard?

    Nine incredible Rookie writers address these questions with Rookie’s signature thoughtfulness, humor, and appreciation for what makes us human. 

    2020 Tavi Gevinson (P) 2020 Audible Originals, LLC
    ©2020 Audible Originals, LLC (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC
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  • Episode 0: Life Skills by Rookie Audio Trailer

    Episode 0: Life Skills by Rookie Audio Trailer
    Jan 4 2021

    Practical guidance for life’s stupid problems

    Tavi Gevinson founded the online magazine Rookie in 2011, when she was fifteen-years-old. She wanted to create a space for teens that was free of messaging telling them who they should be and instead celebrated them for who they were. Rookie attracted a thriving community until it folded in 2018. Its now-grown readers still seek out its archive and book series today.

    In this podcast, Tavi revives Rookie’s popular Life Skills column with brand new, encouraging but never prescriptive advice for coping with messy, personal conundrums. Like: How do I talk to people if I suck at talking to people? How can I embrace conflict instead of dreading it? How can I be creative if I’m scared? How do I talk back to my inner critic? How do I know if it’s time to end a friendship? How do I manage uncertainty? How can I create more pleasure and fabulousness in my life? And why are all of these things somehow so hard?

    Nine incredible Rookie writers address these questions with Rookie’s signature thoughtfulness, humor, and appreciation for what makes us human.
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  • Episode 1: How to Do Self-Care That Actually Works by Danielle Henderson

    Episode 1: How to Do Self-Care That Actually Works by Danielle Henderson
    Jan 21 2021

    TV writer, author, and co-host of the podcast I Saw What You Did Danielle Henderson walks us through self-care practices backed by actual science, featuring interviews with environmental psychologist Lily Bernheimer, sleep expert Dr. Aric Prather, and marriage and family therapist Oumou Sylla.
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  • Episode 2: How to Be Good at Talking to People by Krista Burton

    Episode 2: How to Be Good at Talking to People by Krista Burton
    Jan 21 2021
    Writer Krista Burton shares her three-step, foolproof method for talking to people when you’re not good at talking to people, helping us approach nightmare-level social situations with grace and ease.
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    25 mins
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Couldn't Get Through First 20 Min

This was difficult to listen to. while I agree on the importance of setting boundaries and taking care of yourself, the way the narrators discuss approaching this can be really toxic because it burns bridges. Icing people out with a "no" as opposed to meeting someone on a human level and politely declining can just exacerbate the "us vs them" mentality in the states. I identify as a humanist, and believe in a balance of socialism for necessities (think health care, child care, education) and capitalism for anything superfluous (think fancier car, next laptop that's out, and makeup), so when I hear "anti capitalism", I can't help but think "holy shit, the solution to excessive capitalism isn't to swing the pendulum to other extreme. that is not a good message for our generation!". it breaks my heart to listen to more content like this, because it feels extremely polarizing. Where did all the moderates in the US go? The anger experienced by minority groups today is VALID, but expressing it with hostility is self sabotage because it puts defenses up. When that happens, people just scream at each other across the aisles and everyone is simultaneously deaf. I do not condone discrimination whatsoever, but I do not condone hostility either. I wish the majority of our influencers would think like MLK and Ghandi. The undertone here suggests otherwise.

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Amazingly positive and helpful

Plague time has me feeling a deep sense of ennui so I resolved to try listening to positive, uplifting life advice podcasts, starting with this one. It's actually very helpful in calming down my inner critic and feeling more positive about taking time for things that aren't "productive" in a capitalist culture way.

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