These days, there's a lot of news.
It can be hard to keep up with what it means for you, your family, and your community.
Consider This from NPR is a podcast that helps you make sense of the news.
Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a story and provide the context,
backstory, and analysis you need to understand our rapidly changing world.
Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR.
You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.
Hey, everybody.
It's Marielle.
There are some life skills that we're told we're supposed to learn as kids.
But then you get to adulthood and you realize you never did learn how to ride a bike or to light a match without burning your fingers or to swim.
That's true for me and swimming.
I took lessons as a kid, but I somehow never got the hang of it.
I always felt like water was going up my nose and I was moving through quicksand.
And now if I try to swim, I feel like I get nowhere.
That is hard and a little embarrassing.
And that shame can make us put up walls.
Like, I'm not good at this.
Why even bother?
Colin Jones told me he gets it.