#00095 Nico Slate: What is Brotherhood?

<p dir="ltr">What did this episode awaken in you? Don’t be shy.</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow">https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">This is Ten Thousand Heroes and I’m Ankur Shah Delight.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Today’s episode is an interview with historian and author Nico Slate.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">His most recent book is part-memoir, part-biography, and part-history, and addresses his evolving relationship with his half-brother Peter, through hate crimes, riots, and personal tragedy.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Basically I want everyone to read his book.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">If you listened to previous episodes with Nico (<a href= "http://10kh.show/00003-history-personal-growth-mahatma-gandhi-discipline-and-mangos-with-nico-slate">#00003</a>, <a href= "http://10kh.show/00084-the-role-of-anger-in-nonviolence-with-professor-nico-slate"> #00084</a>), you have a sense of how incredibly thoughtful he is. He brings that whole presence + decades of scholarship + the most heartbreaking story of brotherhood you can imagine to his book.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Read it! (<a href= "https://tupress.temple.edu/books/brothers">Nico’s publisher</a>, <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Memoir-Love-Loss-Race/dp/1439923825"> Amazon.com</a>)</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">This show, Ten Thousand Heroes, is about aligning our life with our purpose.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Most of the time that requires:</p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Confusion</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Hard work</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Addressing conflict, and</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Unconditional love</p> </li> </ul> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">How would we trea