Finding Purpose in a Pandemic
Victor Strecher |
TEDxDetroit
• November 2021
When Vic Strecher lost his daughter, Julia, to a rare heart disease, his world ended. Only it didn't. Vic's wife, Jeri, and older daughter, Rachael, were still very much alive, as were his two demanding careers. What did end was his worldview: one based on long-held assumptions and beliefs about life, death, disease, health, risk, and ultimate purpose—subjects on which he had been writing and speaking for years—but the validity of which he now questioned.
Vic’s experience of being broken open set him on a life transforming journey through ancient and modern philosophy, literature, psychology, neuroscience, and Egyptology.