Videos
Tara Westover discusses her bestselling memoir "Educated" and the transformative power of education in conversation with Nick Anderson of The Washington Post at ACE2019, ACE's 101st Annual Meeting.
Podcasts
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is a podcast that celebrates the things that haven’t gone right. Every week, a new interviewee explores what their failures taught them about how to succeed better. This week's episode is an interview with Tara Westover.
We talk about what it's like to love your family but to be estranged from them, and how the two ideas can co-exist. We also discuss how on earth someone teaches themselves algebra ('Yeah,' says Westover, 'that wasn't fun') and what it was like to refuse any pain medication despite having a dental abscess. Her failures include flunking tests, finding it difficult to make friends, her failure to believe in her family's religion even though she wanted to and her failure to make her relationship with her parents work.