Episode Details

Is letting go of everything actually good advice? No. Hold it too tightly and it is a hot mess. Drop it entirely and nothing happens. The answer sits in the middle.

Everybody quotes the song and nobody means it. I am doing 500 miles round Cornwall. Hold that loosely and I will enjoy it. Hold it tightly, with twenty thousand pounds to raise and a set number of miles a day, and I will not. I am not in control of the traffic or the potholes. Other people bring something to the table too, and that is the part we keep forgetting.

One thing to try: Take the thing you are gripping and loosen your hand by ten percent. Not let go. Loosen.

In this episode

• (0:05) The philosophy of holding things lightly
• (1:46) The balance between attachment and detachment
• (3:30) Trying to control the narrative, everybody else, the government
• (5:16) Let it go, that song, and why nobody actually means it
• (6:51) Holding loosely, and starting to see the beauty in it
• (8:25) Twenty thousand pounds and a daily target would ruin it
• (15:14) Neither clinging to everything nor dropping everything
• (20:12) Not in control of the traffic, or the potholes

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