The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose1 Feb 2016

Rainn Wilson

This week we talk to Rainn Wilson about the courage to be hopefulRainn Wilson is best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office. Wilson also voiced the alien villain Gallaxhar in Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) and starred in the police procedural BackstromToday he’s equally well-known for his millions of Twitter followers and the philosophy website he founded, SoulPancake, which creates media about life's big questions. and wrote a New York Times bestselling book of the same name.He just released a memoir called The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy. Our Sponsor this Week is Spirituality and Health Magazine. Click here for your free trial issue and special offer. In This Interview Rainn Wilson and I Discuss...The One You Feed parableHis new book The Bassoon KingHow spirituality got a bad nameHow spirituality is everything that we don't have in common with the monkeysHow happiness is not an if then propositionThe difference between happiness and joyThe balance between ambition and acceptanceHow cynicism robs us of the gift of joyHow much easier it is to be cynical than to be hopefulBombing on BroadwayHow success doesn't mean the end of the difficulties of lifeThe Baha'i faithHow the Baha'i faith encourages equality between women and menThomas MertonReconciling a loving God with the terrible things that happen in the worldSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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