Episode Details

What is actually in your control? Far less than you think, and that turns out to be the good news. I spent my rock bottom trying to run the whole world.

Your actions, mostly. Your words. Your response to a thought, which arrives whether you want it or not, the way paint gets delivered to your door. What you cannot control is the weather, other people's opinions, other people's words, nature, or the universe arranging itself around you. When you are angry at somebody, it is usually because they are not thinking the way you think they ought to.

One thing to try: Take whatever is bothering you and put it in one of two piles. Then spend the day on the first pile only.

In this episode

• (0:03) Trying to control the whole world, and where that got me
• (2:50) What control actually means, and how little of it we have
• (4:34) A thought is a delivery. You decide whether to use it
• (5:43) Actions are the part you really do own
• (7:33) Now the things you cannot control at all
• (8:40) You can wish about the weather all you like
• (10:24) Being angry that people are not thinking how you would
• (15:57) Spend your time on the pile you can actually move

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