Episode 218: Too Good to Be True

In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk travel selves, generational generalizations, optimistic pitfalls, and forgiving bad fathers. Also, Sarah spies some aliens and RJ jumps off several cliffs. Click here (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/psychology-travel-vacation-identity-transformation/2021/10/07/19e2615c-2204-11ec-8200-5e3fd4c49f5e_story.html) to read “You’re a Different Person When You Travel” by Jen Rose Smith in The Washington Post. Click here (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/its-time-to-stop-talking-about-generations) Louis Menand’s essay “It’s Time to Stop Talking about ‘Generations’” in The New Yorker. Click here (https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/09/hope-optimism-happiness/620164/)to read Arthur Brooks piece on The Difference Between Optimism and Hope. Click here (https://comment.org/death-and-forgiveness) to read Joseph Keegin's essay on Death and Forgiveness.