Episode 56
The Biggest Lie We Tell Ourselves
August 20th, 2025
30 mins 51 secs
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About this Episode
Here are the further resources that I mentioned in the podcast:
Books:
- Radical Acceptance - Tara Brach
- 4000 weeks - Oliver Burkeman
- The Tao of Seneca - Three free PDFs put together by Tim Ferriss
- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (many different versions of it online as PDFs available, just Google it)
- Awareness - Anthony de Mello
- Mindset - Carol Dweck
- The Gifts of Imperfection - Brene Brown (recommended by Alessia)
- All Books by Ryan Holiday on Stoicism; start with “The Obstacle is the Way”
- The Courage to be disliked - Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
- How to stop worrying and start living - Dale Carnegie
And if you need a little wake up call, this 7 Minute YouTube Video usually does it for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2NDQOgGycg
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