You Are Not Your Thoughts
What is your problem right now, in this exact moment? Not the one you're bracing for. Not the what if. Right now. Most of the time the honest answer is nothing, and that question is the spine of this ...
23 Elo 24min
Dancing in the Here and Now
Sam and Christine finally close out The Courage to Be Disliked, and it's the piece that landed hardest for Sam. The philosopher's claim that life isn't a straight line from here to some finish line, i...
9 Elo 22min
The Courage To Be Ordinary
Sam and Christine reach the fifth and final night of The Courage to Be Disliked, and Sam does not hide it, this one hit her as transformational. The final night opens with the young man asking whether...
29 Heinä 21min
It's Not About You
Sam and Christine reach the fourth night of The Courage to Be Disliked, and the whole thing flips: you are not the center of the world. It sounds like a knock, but it turns out to be the good news. If...
16 Heinä 24min
Discard Other People's Tasks
Sam and Christine are back in The Courage to Be Disliked, and the third night of discussion is the one that hits closest to home: the separation of tasks. The big idea is deceptively simple. Whether s...
28 Kesä 25min
All Problems Are Relationship Problems
Sam and Christine keep working through The Courage to Be Disliked, and this week the claim on the table is a big one: every problem you have is an interpersonal relationship problem. Strip other peopl...
22 Kesä 25min
The Life Lie
This one is a direct follow-up to the Adler episode, and it goes straight after self-sabotage: all the quiet ways we get in our own way and never once call it that. Sam and Christine start with the sn...
8 Kesä 21min
Adler, Trauma, and the Driver’s Seat
Sam brings a birthday gift to the conversation this week: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga, a book that walks through the psychology of Alfred Adler as a back-and-forth b...
31 Touko 22min
