Grant Lindsley on What He Learned in His Stumbling Search for Wisdom in a Thai Forest Monastery
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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In this episode, Andrew talks to Grand Lindsley, author of Mediocre Monk, about Theravada Buddhism, ultimate frisbee, and what he brought back from his solitary quest for wisdom in a Thai monastery.
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Grant Lindsley is a writer in Brooklyn, New York. He encountered his first Buddhist monk as an undergraduate at Carleton College, where he majored in psychology and minored in neuroscience. He subsequently spent months training as a monk with the Thai Forest Tradition, a sect of Theravada Buddhism that seeks to follow the exact rules of the historical Buddha from over 2,500 years ago. Lindsley has worked at NOLS and briefly worked at Google until publishing his resignation letter in the Washington Post. An accomplished Ultimate Frisbee player, he has won multiple national championships and two gold medals for Team USA at the World Games. He received his master of fine arts in creative nonfiction from Pacific University and his master of business administration from Cornell Tech.
