A short YouTube interview clip (by Chris Collins) in which a guest discusses books that changed their life. The guest reflects on the concept of 'sonder'—empathizing with others as protagonists of their own stories—and connects this empathy and common human insecurity to their work. The interviewer asks specifically how The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy affected the guest's life.
This time on books that change my life.
One of my favorite words ever is sonder, which is realizing that you're experiencing other people's stories and that you can relate to everyone as kind of the protagonist in their own stories. I love seeing other people and being able to empathize with that and then wanting to show that to other people. Most of what I deal with in my job and with other people, it's people have this insecurity, and if we could get rid of that for everybody, everyone would be a lot better off. But that's obviously, we're still having all these issues, so no one's figured that out yet.
So the big question how did the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy change your life?
It changed my life because it made me feel.
