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How (and Why) to Hug Your Inner Dragons | Richard Schwartz
Episode 323
How do you relate to the more difficult— and even ugly— aspects of your personality? How do you feel about yourself when you are, say, in a judgmenta…
5 years, 2 months ago
A Deeply Healthy Kind of Perfectionism | Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Episode 322
We have talked a lot on this show about how perfectionism can have pernicious impacts on your psyche. Today we're going to talk about how, by contras…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Joy of Being Wrong | Adam Grant
Episode 321
My guest today makes a fascinating and potentially life-changing case. He argues that we need to reconsider how we view intelligence. He says that in…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Buddha's 8-Part Manual for a Good Life | Brother Pháp Dung
Episode 320
Today we're talking about one of the Buddha's first and most important lists: the Eightfold Path. I'm kinda surprised we've never done a deep dive in…
5 years, 3 months ago
How to Do Nothing | Jenny Odell
Episode 319
For an audience of meditators (or aspiring meditators), the idea of doing nothing shouldn't be foreign. But, speaking from personal experience, it is…
5 years, 3 months ago
A New Way to Think About Your Time | Ashley Whillans
Episode 318
For many of us, in this pandemic, our relationship to time has become particularly fraught. You may be noticing that, with no limits on your work tim…
5 years, 3 months ago
Non-Preachy Ethics | Jozen Tamori Gibson
Episode 317
We're diving in on another Buddhist list today. One of the many things I like about the Buddha is that, as far as I can tell, he pretty much always a…
5 years, 3 months ago
How to Call People In (Instead of Calling Them Out) | Loretta Ross
Episode 316
On this Martin Luther King day, it's tempting to fear that America, and the world, may never have been further away from the kind of inclusive societ…
5 years, 3 months ago
A Big Dose of Perspective | Jack Kornfield
Episode 315
This is exactly what I needed right now: a huge, helpful dose of perspective in the midst of the political crisis gripping America -- a crisis which,…
5 years, 3 months ago
A Wise and Counterintuitive Way to Meditate in a Crisis | Lama Rod Owens
Episode 314
If you're either seething or scared — or both — in the aftermath of the attack on the US Capitol, this one's for you. In times of national and intern…
5 years, 3 months ago