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🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | This program is sponsored by the Covley Foundation based in Los Angeles, California. |
0:06.8 | The Covley Foundation is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity. |
0:11.8 | I'm Alan Alda, and this is Clear and Vivid, Conversations about Connecting and Communicating. |
0:27.4 | The most unexpected part of my grieving process in losing the ability to play the violin |
0:32.0 | was acknowledging that I hadn't just lost the ability to play an instrument, I lost myself |
0:37.8 | in the process. You know, I felt like I was missing a huge piece of my heart. I didn't know where |
0:43.5 | it had gone, and I really struggled to figure out who I was and who I could be without the violin, |
0:49.0 | and I'm sure a lot of people listening can resonate, you know, might not have been an instrument, |
0:52.5 | but we all experience loss in our lives. That's Maya Shankar. In her teens, she was a violinist |
0:59.4 | of such promise that the great Idzad Pearlman took her on as a student, but her world came crashing |
1:05.6 | down when an injury ended her career just as it was beginning. Remarkably, she turned that loss |
1:12.3 | into a PhD in neuroscience, a stint in the White House, and creating and hosting a popular podcast |
1:20.0 | about others who were navigating drastic changes in their lives. |
1:25.5 | This is already a treat to be talking with you. Your life has taken so many changes, |
1:31.8 | and you've navigated them so brilliantly, it's really amazing. You started out obsessed with |
1:38.2 | the violin, right? What, when did that start? Yeah, Idzad Pearl, that's so kind of you to say, |
1:43.4 | Alan, and it's such a delight for me to be in conversation with you today. Yeah, when I was |
1:48.4 | six years old, my love of the violin emerged. So I'm the youngest of four kids, and my mom |
1:56.0 | one day went up to our attic, our family attic, and brought down my grandmother's violin that she |
2:00.1 | had brought with her from India when she immigrated to this country with my dad. I had a really close |
2:05.4 | emotional connection with my grandmother, and I do wonder whether knowing that she had played when |
2:09.5 | she was a young kid in the Indian classical style was part of it, but I gravitated towards |
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