She spent two years and three months in a brutal Iranian prison. In solitary confinement for half of it. For a crime that was entirely made up. The Melbourne University lecturer was attending a conference in Iran when she was randomly captured at the airport and charged with “espionage” based on zero evidence.

How do you survive such horror? How do you cope with living in a cell with nothing but a scrap of carpet for a year? Not knowing if anyone knows your whereabouts, waiting to be hanged? What is the internal voice that gets you through?

Kylie Moore-Gilbert has one of the most incredible stories I’ve heard.

In this interview, she is generously open and raw about the mind techniques that can get a human through untold hardship, how she found joy and forgiveness amid it all, how she wrote her book in her head while in prison, and what is left when we lose it all.

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I highly recommend buying Kylie’s book The Uncaged Sky

The other book we mention in the chat is Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning.

Listen to Dr Jud Brewer’s chat about curiosity.

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