Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes | Brought to you by Dry Farm Wines (http://dryfarmwines.com/tim), Allform (http://allform.com/tim), and LMNT (http://drinklmnt.com/tim). Show Notes: https://tim.blog/2021/06/01/suleika-jaouad/#more-56108 Suleika Jaouad (@suleikajaouad) is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling memoir Between Two Kingdoms. She wrote the Emmy Award-winning New York Times column + video series “Life, Interrupted,” and her reporting and essays have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, and NPR, among others. A highly sought-after speaker, her mainstage TED talk was one of the ten most popular of 2019 and has nearly four million views. She is also the creator of The Isolation Journals, a community creativity project founded during the COVID-19 pandemic to help others convert isolation into artistic solitude. Over 100,000 people from around the world have joined. You can find one of my favorite prompts, which I shared on my blog last spring, at https://tim.blog/dialogue. Please enjoy! SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1dSzTkW LINK TO ALL SHOW TRANSCRIPTS: https://tim.blog/2018/09/20/all-transcripts-from-the-tim-ferriss-show/ About Tim Ferriss: Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 500 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Connect with Tim Ferriss: Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Visit the Tim Ferriss PODCAST: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss BLOG: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/ Start [00:00] Suleika's two weeks in a maximum-security prison hospice. [06:43] How Suleika Jaouad came by her name. [11:51] On becoming a writer and writing about war. [14:43] Failure. [21:00] Don't ask this in a Morrocan restaurant if you learned Arabic in Tunisia. [22:53] From rebellious teenager to Princeton academic. [26:32] Facing mortality and Suleika's series Life, Interrupted. [36:32] Books, the "sick girl Bible," and Tolstoy. [41:37] Life after cancer. [47:56] Post-treatment work, PTSD, and Between Two Kingdoms. [54:47] A New York Times column at 23. [1:03:34] On being added to a Montana survivalist family’s “list” [1:15:56] How her road trip freed her from “incanceration” [1:18:48] Advice for those stuck in a similar period of darkness. [1:30:15] Suleika’s journaling practice. [1:34:31] Writing what you know vs. writing what you want to understand. [1:43:02] What would Suleika’s billboard say? [1:47:11] What are The Isolation Journals? [1:48:41] Parting thoughts. [1:51:32]