How (and Why) to Hug Your Inner Dragons | Richard Schwartz
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 judgmental or vengeful or jealous mode? Is that an opportuni...
10 Feb 20211h 11min
A Deeply Healthy Kind of Perfectionism | Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
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 contrast, a certain kind of perfection is very much worth ...
8 Feb 20211h 6min
The Joy of Being Wrong | Adam Grant
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 instead of viewing intelligence as the ability to thi...
3 Feb 20211h 4min
The Buddha's 8-Part Manual for a Good Life | Brother Pháp Dung
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 into this list on the show before, but better late th...
1 Feb 202144min
How to Do Nothing | Jenny Odell
For an audience of meditators (or aspiring meditators), the idea of doing nothing shouldn't be foreign. But, speaking from personal experience, it is very possible, especially for Type A people, to ap...
27 Jan 202159min
A New Way to Think About Your Time | Ashley Whillans
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 time, you are going into overdrive and feeling more cr...
25 Jan 20211h 14min
Non-Preachy Ethics | Jozen Tamori Gibson
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 aims his messages, even the hard-to-swallow ones, at...
20 Jan 20211h 3min
How to Call People In (Instead of Calling Them Out) | Loretta Ross
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 society that Dr. King called for so eloquently. So today,...
18 Jan 202159min
