133: Neil Pasricha on the Art of Noticing Awesome Things that Bring You Joy

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Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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You don’t need to lose 15 pounds, visit the seven wonders of the world, go on lavish wellness retreats, or earn a six-figure salary to be happy. In fact, Neil Pasricha believes that it’s much, much simpler than that! Neil is a leadership keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and positive psychology researcher whose work focuses on gratitude, happiness, failure, and resilience. Ranked as one of the most inspiring TED Talk speakers of all time, Neil has spoken to hundreds of ...

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0:00.0	I drove home from work one night and I was back in Toronto and now working at
0:06.4	Walmart I got my office job I'm working in human resources I'm my leadership
0:10.8	development manager I drove home from work we just bought the house and she says to me I'm out. This isn't working. I don't love you and I've met someone else and that was a huge psychological trap for me because I was in shop but also I told you I grew up with such low
0:30.8	it was like and now I'm a failure at this, and now I'm not attractive, I'm not deserving of love,
0:35.6	I'm not, you know, the confidence and all these traumas were just really kind of inside of me kind of bubbling to the surface.
0:41.8	At the same time, over this kind of bubbling to the surface at the same time over this kind of
0:44.4	tumultuous path post-Harvard Chris attempted suicide once and it was a terrible
0:51.0	experience I just visited him we were talking on the phone three or four times a week. He called me up from the hospital and said,
0:58.0	I'm in recovery. I have attempted suicide. I'd love you to come visit me and I need you to help me because I need to get on the right medications, I need to see the right psychiatrist.
1:08.0	Can you get a bit more involved in my health than I did? But then as I was going through this process of the divorce and the selling
1:15.7	my house, he then attempted to take his life a second time and this time was successful. Hello friends and welcome back to the Light Watkins show where I interview
1:29.4	ordinary folks just like you and me who have taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their
1:35.3	path, their purpose, or their mission. And in doing so, they have been able to positively impact
1:41.0	the lives of many others who have either heard about their story, or who've witnessed
1:45.2	them in action, or who have directly benefited from their work.
1:50.1	And today I have a very, very special guest for you.
1:53.6	He's someone who I originally recruited
1:56.8	to come and speak at one of my Shine events
2:00.1	in New York City back in 2017 I believe and he came and he delivered one of the funniest
2:06.4	most engaging and most inspirational talks that we ever had in those five years that I hosted the Shine. His name is Neil Pas Rica.
2:15.0	Neil is based in Toronto and I didn't know a whole lot about his backstory at the time that I actually met him but as I mentioned
2:25.3	before one of the benefits of doing a podcast such as this is that you have an
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