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Episode: What Illness Can Teach Us About Uncertainty - Jonathan Gluck on his new memoir about cancer and coming to terms with not knowing
Description: In his new memoir, An Exercise In Uncertainty, journalist and editor Jonathan Gluck chronicles more than 20 years of living with multiple myeloma, an incurable but treatable cancer. He joined me to talk about how he's coped with illness, why he chose this moment to write about it, and, most importantly, how he's learned to deal with a condition all of us face to one degree or another: uncertainty. Jon explains the concept of "predemption"—a mindset that's helped him find something positive, even in the toughest moments—and describes the invisible aspects of cancer, how it affected fami...