Humanity Is Trying: Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy Answers
Written by Jason Gots
Narrated by Jason Gots
5/5
()
About this audiobook
My sister and I are driving south toward Graceland in her beat-up red Saturn, both in need of refuge, both running from different things. Her bumper sticker reads “Humanity Is Trying.” It’s a triple entendre, she explains: Humanity is exhausting. Humanity is struggle. Humanity is doing the best it knows how.
Humanity Is Trying is several books in one. It’s a memoir about the love and the loss of a sister and a best friend. It’s the story of a series of escape attempts—cowardly, courageous, harmful, and hopeful—experiments in freedom from the stories that limit us. And it’s a record of spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth with the help of friends, psychedelics, art, and spiritual practice.
From Jason Gots, creator of the podcasts Think Again and Clever Creature, comes a philosophical love letter to the slow, messy work of building a life and living with your dreams in the face of reality.
Editor's Note
Comforting read…
After the loss of his sister and best friend, Jason Gots, creator of the podcasts “Think Again” and “Clever Creature,” turned to his community, spirituality, art, and psychedelics to get through the overwhelming pain and exhaustion. His memoir is a comforting read filled with honesty about the human experience and an ode to regaining one’s footing in an uncertain world.
Jason Gots
Jason Gots hosted and produced the podcast Think Again and created the new podcast Clever Creature. He is living proof of the Cheshire cat’s promise to Alice that if you keep going long enough in any direction, you’re bound to end up somewhere.
Related to Humanity Is Trying
Related audiobooks
Gut Renovation: Unlock the Age-Defying Power of the Microbiome to Remodel Your Health from the Inside Out Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things that Seem Impossible Today Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mom Friend Guide to Everyday Safety and Security: Tips from the Practical One in Your Squad Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sea State: A Memoir Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dying: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Do We Know Ourselves?: Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Animals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Personal Memoirs For You
I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Woman in Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Counting the Cost Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Me: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bad Mormon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Glass Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Built for This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Summer of Fall: Gravity is a bitch, but I'm still standing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5See You on the Way Down: Catch You on the Way Back Up! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sociopath: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wishful Drinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enough Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Making It So: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Humanity Is Trying
4 ratings0 reviews