Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer is the consummate Oblivious Witness guest. Having lived on three continents and spent five decades travelling the world as a writer and journalist, he has developed insights into the way we all live that can't help but inspire tolerance, compassion and kindness.Pico's five TED Talks have been viewed over eleven million times. To meet him, though, you'd never know that he'd enjoyed such wide-spread admiration and acclaim. Pico's humility and curiosity about other people is a testament both to his own character and to the lessons he's learned from amazing friends like Leonard Cohen and the Dalai Lama. There are so many jewels in this conversation with Pico Iyer, as he talks us through his extraordinary childhood, his glamorous life as a writer on world affairs for Time Magazine, and his decision to leave it all behind to go and live a simple life in Kyoto, Japan.Pico has written seventeen best-selling books, the most recent being Aflame: Learning From Silence, in which he reflects on the power of silence and what it can teach us about how to live and how to love.Pico Iyer Get full access to Oblivious Witness at michelleneeling.substack.com/subscribe