


TIPPETT: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. It is the risks that we take every single moment of a single day. If I knew in the first hours of the morning what I’m going to do, what is going to happen, what attitude or decision should I take - I think my life would be deadly boring because, well, what makes life interesting is the unknown. PAULO COELHO: Every morning, I find myself a different person. We explore what he’s touched in modern people with his fable-like stories that turn life, love, writing, and reading into pilgrimage. Today, we meet the man behind the writings. He also has more than 39 million followers across Twitter and Facebook and rarely gives traditional media interviews.

He is one of the most widely read authors in the world, with over 200 million copies of his books sold. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: The Brazilian lyricist Paulo Coelho is best known for his book The Alchemist, which has been on The New York Times bestseller list for over 400 weeks.
