021 | Jonathan Fields: How to Live a Good Life

The Sean Croxton Sessions

Sean Croxton

Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.9 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

CODE YELLOW ALERT! This book was full of yellow highlighter by the time I was done with it. Jonathan Fields, author of this masterpiece called How to Live a Good Life, joins me for a discussion about how you can find fulfillment by filling all three of your Good Life Buckets.

Here's what we talked about:

* How to use "exposure therapy" to face fear and uncertainty.

* The benefits of being an introvert, and how to use your own social wiring to your advantage.

* One simple thing you can do to stop reacting to life and start living with more intention and meaning.

* How to give your gratitude practice a big boost, and make someone else feel good at the same time.

* The best way to start meaningful conversations (you'll never have to ask "What do you do?" ever again.)

* How to love the job you're with, and be more fulfilled in ANY workplace.

* What to do if you don't know what your passion or purpose is, and why you shouldn't worry about it if you don't.

Learn more about Jonathan at www.goodlifeproject.com.

Hosted by Sean Croxton

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey friends, just a quick heads up.
0:02.2	About halfway through this interview, my Skype just did some crazy stuff.
0:05.5	So I had to switch computers.
0:06.7	And so my end of the audio is a little bit off for the second half of this interview, but it's not terrible.
0:12.5	Just want to let you know.
0:13.5	Here we go.
0:15.7	It's episode number 21 of the sessions with guests Jonathan Fields, author of How to Live a Good Life. Here's what's coming
0:22.5	up. The best stuff in life happens when you sort of live in that uncomfortable place where you're
0:27.5	really exploring the edges of what you're about. When we work at a job that we quote hate or a
0:33.4	life-sucking job, we tend not to realize that almost without fail, we're complicit in making
0:39.3	it so bad. Fundamentally, you know, the people who live the best lives are the ones who live
0:43.4	intentional, mindful, aware, present lives that focus on doing the things that really move
0:49.1	the needle and make the most difference, that create meaning, that deepen relationships,
0:52.7	that optimize vitality.
0:55.0	Here we go.
1:08.9	Yo, what's up, y'all? Welcome back to the sessions. I'm your host Sean Croxton of
1:13.1	Sean Croxton.com. Thank you so much for tuning in. I know you're going to thoroughly enjoy
1:18.7	today's conversation with Jonathan Fields. He wrote an amazing book called How to Live a Good
1:24.5	Life. And I love books, as you know. I love the content in books and all the stuff
1:29.9	that I can learn, of course. But what I really, really, really love and I'm just fascinated by
1:35.6	is great writers. And Jonathan is a great writer. The book just flows and you start the book.
1:41.2	And next thing you know, you're on like a page 100 because it just flows so well and just kind of flies by. And so I highly recommend you pick it up. He covers lots of topics in the book, just little short chapters. And we cover about six of them in this episode. We talk about the gift of being an introvert. Both he and I are introverts. I'm a super introvert who we're the guys. We talk about this later,
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