Eric Weiner
Journalist and Author
The New York Times bestseller
The Geography of Bliss
Education
University of Maryland College Park
B.A., English Language and Literature
1985Podcasts
35:1833: The Geography of ….Eric Weiner, NYT’s Best-Selling Author & Journalist [Main T4C Episode]
Eric Weiner is a journalist and author of The New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss. His most recent book, The Geography of Genius, has been called “smart, funny and utterly delightful” and has been translated into 20 languages. A number of high schools and universities have incorporated the..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“What interested me about living overseas was looking at the world as a laboratory of ideas. There are universal problems, like how to educate a child, how to be happy, all these things out there in the world outside of the U.S., there are all these creative solutions.”
Best Career Advice
“Put 100% effort and attention to what you’re doing, but have exactly 0% invested in the results.”
Career Challenge
“And after two, two and a half years only in India, they said we have an opening, and there’s a promotion to a full staff position from contract in Jerusalem. Do you want to take it? And I took it. I took it for the wrong reasons. I took it because I thought it would be better for my career. I thought I’d be more visible. The truth is I didn’t enjoy it as much. The work was grueling. You’re under a microscope scope in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was less of an adventure but still great.”
Skills
Editing, Research, Blogging, Social Media, Journalism, Community Outreach, Microsoft Word, Public Speaking, Storytelling
Professional Interests
Adam Grant, Alan Murray, BBC, Stanford University, University of Maryland, Fairleigh Dickinson University
