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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
This was mentioned as a massive decluttering bestseller by Marie Kondo. Gretchen Rubin noted that Kondo's approach has 'one way, the KonMari way' which might not work for everyone.
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We talk about the difference between her approach and that of Marie Kondo who's got that massive decluttering bestseller. I think it's called the Life Changing Magic of tidying up.
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Episode: Gretchen Rubin, Outer Order, Inner Calm
This was mentioned as a massive decluttering bestseller by Marie Kondo. Gretchen Rubin noted that Kondo's approach has 'one way, the KonMari way' which might not work for everyone.
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We talk about the difference between her approach and that of Marie Kondo who's got that massive decluttering bestseller. I think it's called the Life Changing Magic of tidying up.
But the thing about Marie Kondo is that she really has one way, the KonMari way and it's a way that is super successful for a lot of people obviously but it doesn't work for everyone.
What I do know, I think, is that her standard is you shouldn't keep anything that doesn't spark joy.
The Four Tendencies
The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)
This was mentioned alongside Better Than Before as one of the utterly fascinating books Gretchen Rubin wrote concerning habit change.
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And then she wrote some books about habit change which are utterly fascinating. They're called one is called Better Than Before, the other is called For The Four Tendencies.
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Episode: Gretchen Rubin, Outer Order, Inner Calm
This was mentioned alongside Better Than Before as one of the utterly fascinating books Gretchen Rubin wrote concerning habit change.
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And then she wrote some books about habit change which are utterly fascinating. They're called one is called Better Than Before, the other is called For The Four Tendencies.
The Power of an Open Question
The Buddha's Path to Freedom
This book was mentioned as one of the two that Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel authored.
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She is the author of The Power of an Open Question and the logic of faith and the host of a new podcast called Open Question.
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This book was mentioned as one of the two that Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel authored.
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She is the author of The Power of an Open Question and the logic of faith and the host of a new podcast called Open Question.
The Logic of Faith
A Buddhist Approach to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt
This book was listed as one of the author's publications, which led to a discussion about faith.
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She is the author of the power of an open question and The Logic of Faith and the host of a new podcast called Open Question.
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This book was listed as one of the author's publications, which led to a discussion about faith.
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She is the author of the power of an open question and The Logic of Faith and the host of a new podcast called Open Question.
I wrote a book The Logic of Faith and she wrote a beautiful book on faith I don't know 1520 years ago I don't know when but I would recommend that because and also listen to it on audible because she reads it so beautifully but anyway we both kind of connected and we thought we're really into faith let's do a weekend and it was great
Walk with Jesus
Bible Study for Women
Sharon Salzberg wrote this book on faith, which the guest had taught a weekend course on alongside the author.
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Sharon Salisberg and I taught on faith last year because I wrote a book the logic of faith and she wrote a beautiful book on faith I don't know 1520 years ago I don't know when but I would recommend t...
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Sharon Salzberg wrote this book on faith, which the guest had taught a weekend course on alongside the author.
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Sharon Salisberg and I taught on faith last year because I wrote a book the logic of faith and she wrote a beautiful book on faith I don't know 1520 years ago I don't know when but I would recommend that because and also listen to it on audible because she reads it so beautifully
Sharon's book it's called Faith the book you're talking about and I read it a long time ago but if so I'm going to struggle to remember the central thesis but one of the things I took away from it was you could also call faith trust
The Way of the Bodhisattva (Shambhala Library)
This book, written by the Mahayana tradition teacher Shantideva, was mentioned in relation to the concept of refraining from action when anger arises.
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there's this one very great teacher named Shanti Deva in the Mahayana tradition and he wrote The Way of the Bodhisattva and he says if something comes up and you're starting to feel a...
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This book, written by the Mahayana tradition teacher Shantideva, was mentioned in relation to the concept of refraining from action when anger arises.
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there's this one very great teacher named Shanti Deva in the Mahayana tradition and he wrote The Way of the Bodhisattva and he says if something comes up and you're starting to feel anger like if you can't just relax with it just be like a log say like a piece of wood just don't do anything
Love 2.0
How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become
The speaker mentioned this book because the author suggests that the common cultural definition of love is too narrow, proposing instead that love is any moment of trusting, biologically resonant exchange of goodwill and understanding with another human.
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One of my favorite love thinkers is Barbara Fretrickson. I don't know if you've spoken with her. But I know I'm really hurtful and she wrote her book Love 2.0 and basically her point...
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The speaker mentioned this book because the author suggests that the common cultural definition of love is too narrow, proposing instead that love is any moment of trusting, biologically resonant exchange of goodwill and understanding with another human.
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One of my favorite love thinkers is Barbara Fretrickson. I don't know if you've spoken with her. But I know I'm really hurtful and she wrote her book Love 2.0 and basically her point is like we've got love all wrong.
Love is anytime you're with another human and you're just having a trusting, biologically resonant moment where you're exchanging goodwill and understanding and benevolence. That is a moment of love and it doesn't mean as much as we like to think it means to have those moments of love.
Love Your Enemies
How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
The guest introduced his new book, which focused on disagreeing agreeably and the corrosive danger of contempt in culture and interpersonal relationships. The title was later refined to suggest that those perceived as enemies are actually just brothers and sisters who disagree, meaning they shouldn't be labeled as enemies at all.
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He also has an excellent podcast, The Arthur Brooks Show, and a new book, which is called Love Your Enemies, How Decent People Can Save America From The Culture Of Contempt.
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Episode: Arthur C. Brooks, Love Your Enemies
The guest introduced his new book, which focused on disagreeing agreeably and the corrosive danger of contempt in culture and interpersonal relationships. The title was later refined to suggest that those perceived as enemies are actually just brothers and sisters who disagree, meaning they shouldn't be labeled as enemies at all.
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He also has an excellent podcast, The Arthur Brooks Show, and a new book, which is called Love Your Enemies, How Decent People Can Save America From The Culture Of Contempt.
I'm running a book right now called Love Your Enemies.
And it's really dedicated to the spirit that I've gotten from working with is holiness at Al Alamah.
But this project, Love Your Enemies, basically is the wrong title in so far as the people who disagree with us, they're simply brothers and sisters who disagree with us. They're not our enemies and so therefore we have no reason not to love them.
Seven Factors about the Anointing
The speaker mentioned reading a book about a man named George Dawson, who was born to former slaves in Texas in the late 1800s and lived to be 103. A story within the book about being asked 'How are you?' highlighted the power of awareness and acknowledging experience.
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Read a book a little while ago about a man named George Dawson.
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The speaker mentioned reading a book about a man named George Dawson, who was born to former slaves in Texas in the late 1800s and lived to be 103. A story within the book about being asked 'How are you?' highlighted the power of awareness and acknowledging experience.
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Read a book a little while ago about a man named George Dawson.
He was born in Texas in the late 1800s, the parents who were former slaves. He lived to be 103, seeing the turn of two centuries.
There was one story in the book that really touched me about the power of awareness and acknowledging our experience when he was about 12 his family sent him off to work as a farmhand for a white family.
She turned to him and said, how are you? The question startled him. No one had asked him that for so long. He didn't know how to respond.
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
A 10% Happier How-to Book
This book was co-written by Dan Harris and Jeff Warren and was mentioned in connection with an upcoming meditation retreat.
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He's going to do a meditation retreat for Figuity Skeptics in upstate New York at the Omega Institute on May 10th through 12th.
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This book was co-written by Dan Harris and Jeff Warren and was mentioned in connection with an upcoming meditation retreat.
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He's going to do a meditation retreat for Figuity Skeptics in upstate New York at the Omega Institute on May 10th through 12th.
The New Right Stuff
Using Space to Bring Out the Best in You
The book discussed seemed to be the textbook used for the leadership and mindfulness training Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides conducted at Virgin Galactic.
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And you can read more about me there or get the book, the textbook we use for our training and The New Right Stuff.
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Episode: Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, The New Right Stuff
The book discussed seemed to be the textbook used for the leadership and mindfulness training Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides conducted at Virgin Galactic.
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And you can read more about me there or get the book, the textbook we use for our training and The New Right Stuff.
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
A 10% Happier How-to Book
The speaker mentioned co-authoring this book with Jeff Warren, who developed the 'Welcome to the Party' meditation technique.
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This is a technique developed my my by my friend and co author Jeff Warren with whom I wrote a book called Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
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Episode: Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, The New Right Stuff
The speaker mentioned co-authoring this book with Jeff Warren, who developed the 'Welcome to the Party' meditation technique.
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This is a technique developed my my by my friend and co author Jeff Warren with whom I wrote a book called Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
10% Happier
How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story
The speaker mentioned that listeners would know a little about Dr. Mark Epstein from reading this book, as Dan wrote about him extensively in it.
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If you read Ten Percent Happier, you know a little bit about Mark.
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The speaker mentioned that listeners would know a little about Dr. Mark Epstein from reading this book, as Dan wrote about him extensively in it.
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If you read Ten Percent Happier, you know a little bit about Mark.
And I wrote about them extensively in Ten Percent Happier.
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
A 10% Happier How-to Book
The speaker mentioned that the meditation teacher he co-wrote a book with, Jeff Warren, has a great meditation in that book, though he couldn't state the full title due to profanity.
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you know in the most recent book I wrote meditation for Figuity Skeptics, Jeff Warren, the meditation teacher with whom I wrote the book has a great meditation about that which has profanity in the ti...
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Episode: Oliver Burkeman, The Power of Negative Thinking
The speaker mentioned that the meditation teacher he co-wrote a book with, Jeff Warren, has a great meditation in that book, though he couldn't state the full title due to profanity.
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you know in the most recent book I wrote meditation for Figuity Skeptics, Jeff Warren, the meditation teacher with whom I wrote the book has a great meditation about that which has profanity in the title so I can't give you the title.
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
A 10% Happier How-to Book
The speakers co-authored this book which recently came out in paperback and was the result of a cross-country road trip taken in a silly orange bus to gather information on meditation hurdles. The book offers useful, practical hacks for establishing a meditation habit.
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he and I wrote a book together that came out around this time last year and it just came out in paperback available to find bookstores everywhere and Amazon.com etc etc. It's called Meditation...
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Episode: Jeff Warren, New Year, New You
The speakers co-authored this book which recently came out in paperback and was the result of a cross-country road trip taken in a silly orange bus to gather information on meditation hurdles. The book offers useful, practical hacks for establishing a meditation habit.
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he and I wrote a book together that came out around this time last year and it just came out in paperback available to find bookstores everywhere and Amazon.com etc etc. It's called Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
in that book Jeff and I took a cross country road trip in a very deeply silly orange bus with a big 10% happier decal on the side of it.
Jeff and I use this trip as an information gathering thing and wrote a book about it really giving people useful practical hacks for getting over the hump and establishing this habit.
I love 10% happier in Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics thank you for making meditation accessible to all of us who don't like the woo woo.
I think that's brilliant because I mean this is one of the things we talk about in the book
Assata
An Autobiography
The book was read by the speaker's roommate while they were in graduate school, which shocked the speaker into realizing that political imprisonment occurred in the United States.
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One of them like having a roommate that was reading the autobiography of Asadashakur and just realizing you know I knew about, I knew about Amnesty International and that there could be folks who are...
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The book was read by the speaker's roommate while they were in graduate school, which shocked the speaker into realizing that political imprisonment occurred in the United States.
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One of them like having a roommate that was reading the autobiography of Asadashakur and just realizing you know I knew about, I knew about Amnesty International and that there could be folks who are imprisoned for political reasons but I just, it was shocking to me to realize that was something that happened here in the United States.
Birth of a White Nation
The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today
This book was recommended for breaking down the origins of whiteness, particularly when 'white' became a legal designation in the early 13 colonies.
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One thing I would encourage people to check out Jacqueline Vattelora check out her work one she's written a book called Birth of a White Nation she breaks down the origins of whitenes...
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This book was recommended for breaking down the origins of whiteness, particularly when 'white' became a legal designation in the early 13 colonies.
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One thing I would encourage people to check out Jacqueline Vattelora check out her work one she's written a book called Birth of a White Nation she breaks down the origins of whiteness really globally like when white and in legal terms when did white become a thing with a legal designation and laws that could be associated with it white and black but when did white become a thing and it was in the early 13 colonies it was here.
The Way of Tenderness
Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender
The book was mentioned as one of the publications written by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, an author and Zen Buddhist priest.
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She holds a PhD and she's written books, including one called The Way of Tenderness.
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The book was mentioned as one of the publications written by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, an author and Zen Buddhist priest.
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She holds a PhD and she's written books, including one called The Way of Tenderness.
A Year In Provence
The author's wife had read this book about a family who moved from London to France, but the Federers felt that experience was not radical enough for their planned sabbatical.
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It was funny good my wife had read a year in Provance which is kind of an older book of family that took us about a couple went from London to France and you know realize it just wasn't far enough bec...
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Episode: Ben Feder, Making Every Day a Sabbatical
The author's wife had read this book about a family who moved from London to France, but the Federers felt that experience was not radical enough for their planned sabbatical.
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It was funny good my wife had read a year in Provance which is kind of an older book of family that took us about a couple went from London to France and you know realize it just wasn't far enough because they're for six months, they were just hosting all their friends.
Escape 101
The Four Secrets to Taking a Sabbatical or Career Break Without Losing Your Money or Your Mind
This book was read by the author to prepare for the sabbatical, focusing on how to take a sabbatical without losing money or sanity, and was targeted at people feeling trapped in their jobs.
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The book that I read to prepare myself for this sabbatical was something called Escape 101 had a go on sabbatical without losing your money or your mind and it was not written for guy...
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This book was read by the author to prepare for the sabbatical, focusing on how to take a sabbatical without losing money or sanity, and was targeted at people feeling trapped in their jobs.
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The book that I read to prepare myself for this sabbatical was something called Escape 101 had a go on sabbatical without losing your money or your mind and it was not written for guys with means.
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