On this week’s episode of Life and Lessons, you’re going to hear a conversation I had with Jon Yates.

Jon is the Executive Director of the Youth Endowment Fund, and author of the book Fractured. He has spent two decades looking at how we can bring society closer together.

Jon founded the National Citizen Service, which has already helped more than 500,000 young people, and he has worked on political strategy, including in his previous role as Chief Policy Adviser to the Secretary of State for Education.

In the next hour, you’re going to learn:

1. Why the world we live in right now feels so fractured

2. Why identities, attitudes and even the words we use end up controlling so much of our lives and outcomes

3. Why in the right circumstances, wearing a Man United shirt will make it more likely that you’re offered help if you fall in the street

4. What each of us can do right now to bring our communities, cultures and societies closer together, and begin to mend some of the fractures we face

And so much more.

Order Fractured here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/fractured/jon-yates/9780008463991

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Jon Yates

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