--:-- Shamita Basu: Hey there, it's Shamita here with an exciting announcement.
--:-- Shamita Basu: This week on Apple News In Conversation, our Think Again series is back. And this time we're talking about how to rethink the way you approach big life transitions.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Over the past few years, I've gone through a lot of transitions. Some of the major ones. I got married. I had really close loved ones die. I started a new job, this one, remotely and in a pandemic. I moved a few times, and I've got some big transitions coming up too. I'm pregnant and really excited and suddenly feeling this rush of momentum into the next chapter of my life.
--:-- Shamita Basu: The thing about moments of transition is they can feel challenging, destabilizing, even scary. But they can also be really clarifying. They're a chance to take stock of where you are, what matters to you, and who you want to be moving forward.
--:-- Shamita Basu: That's why, for our Think Again series, we're diving into some of these big pivot points in life. Like becoming a young adult and figuring out your purpose with psychotherapist Satya Doyle-Baiyak.
--:-- Shamita Basu: The tricky thing about being in quarter life is we are doing this dance all the time to both find ourselves and to survive day by day.
--:-- Shamita Basu: All the changes that come with parenthood with journalist Jessica Gross
--:-- Shamita Basu: I never want to look at these massive changes as all bad or all good
--:-- Shamita Basu: Anderson Cooper on the surprising comfort he's found talking to people about grief and death.
--:-- Shamita Basu: All around us, there are hearts that are broken and there are hearts that are mending and there are people who feel alone.
--:-- Shamita Basu: And we'll revisit my conversation from earlier this year with L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez about retirement.
--:-- Shamita Basu: If you are in that transition and thinking of retiring, find out whether what you think you want to do is really going to work. Sample the dream.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Each of these episodes has tangible things for you to do, to try, to apply in your own life.
--:-- Shamita Basu: The series starts with Shankar Vedantam, the host of the podcast Hidden Brain.
--:-- Shamita Basu: I asked Shankar to describe for us what happens to our brain when we're going through big life transitions.
--:-- Shankar Vedantam: This is the paradox that I think is at the heart of how our brains process change, which is on the one hand, we're extraordinarily capable of great change. We're very adaptable. And on the other hand, we're very reluctant to make change. We're often very fearful about it.
--:-- Shamita Basu: My interview with Shankar is out now. The rest of the series will be out in the next few weeks.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Follow Apple News in conversation in Apple Podcasts to make sure you don't miss an episode.
