Recovery Freedom from Our Addictions

With this book that we're talking about today, Recovery, Freedom from our Addictions...Is you expanded that definition of addiction out and you said that actually in some form or another, we're all addicts, whether it's mobiles, whether it's food, whether it's money, whether it's power.

You've completely understood the raison d'etre of the book, the reasoning behind it, mate. I think it's inevitable in a capitalist consumer culture that addiction is a component because what consumerism is is that we acquire an external commodity in order to make us feel better.

The reason that it was important to me to express that I'm not coming from a didactic position is because now that, even when I come in this room here now at Facebook, I meet young people that are competent, lucid, brilliant communicators, seem like they're at ease and comfortable with themselves in ways that I wasn't when I was that age.

Step four in the book is you take a personal inventory of all the things that have ever messed you up. So it might be things in your childhood, it might be something that your mum did, it could be something serious like maybe you didn't grow up around your dad or someone died that you needed or somebody abused you.

I hope that you're going to go and click and order this book today. It's there in the comments. If anything we said connected with you, resonated with you, please, please, please go through.

He released Revolution, a book about nonviolent social change, away from contemporary capitalism and toward the common good. He also wrote Recovery, a bestseller about navigating addiction as someone who's been addicted to sex, heroin fame and everything that comes without line of work.

I'm very happy with this particular book. I'm proud of it. I love it.

The program's like a hundred years old. The 12-step program primarily invented to help people with serious chemical dependency issues in your country America 100 years ago nearly.

I think the principles within it are applicable to all forms of attachment and I think that it can be nothing less in the right context than a kind of secular religion.

It sounds like a self-help program that you only get to when you have seriously run out of options, which is a problem because it seems like you should be working on that stuff before you run into the problems themselves.

I do recommend it. This interview almost didn't happen like I said they pitched us which was a huge virtual pat on the back and I tried to get him for years to do the show no response at all as as it goes and then one day out of the blue hey would you like to interview Russell Brand it's like yes please.

I'm very happy with this particular book. I'm proud of it. I love it.

It's congrats on the book launch, by the way, not your first book but still big deal.

The book title is recovery freedom from our addictions the lovely book if you're interested in this sort of thing I do recommend it

I think at this point I understand it and I understand it well enough to know how little I understand it.

I'm at a point where I can say whilst I've written this book anybody that's got clean time could have written a book.

I'm very happy with this particular book. I'm proud of it. I love it.

I think the principles within it are applicable to all forms of attachment and I think that it can be nothing less in the right context than a kind of secular religion.

It sounds like a self-help program that you only get to when you have seriously run out of options, which is a problem because it seems like you should be working on that stuff before you run into the problems themselves.

Congrats on the book launch, by the way, not your first book but still big deal.

The lovely book if you're interested in this sort of thing I do recommend it.