# Jason Reynolds — On Hopelessness, the Virtue of Stamina, and Showing Grace to Ourselves

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Podcast: [On Being with Krista Tippett](https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett-279891)
Published: 2026-03-19T18:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 3098

## Resource

From Krista: I was longing for a deep dive on the radiant and common-sense hope that Jason Reynolds embodies after I interviewed him at a Georgetown event last year. I got my chance at the 2025 Aspen Ideas Festival. Jason’s perspective is so urgent for the world we've now walked into: on giving ourselves grace to be hopeless, the virtue of stamina, and the hope that stays strong in him from his life in relationship with the very young in our midst — "the arbiters and purveyors of the future" — as well as an occasional stranger in a bar. Jason himself is preternaturally wise as well as talented and kind and humble. He's become a friend across the years and is one of my favorite people in the world.

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