136: Learn How to Love
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We are not born knowing how to love well. We learn by observing those who raise us, observing the world we are born into and by what we read, view and absorb. The catch is not all of us are watching how to love well. Some of us will have a distorted view, some of us will be limited by what we see while others will observe healthy, kind, thoughtful ways of loving. While there are many wonderful ways to express love, there are essential components, and that is what we'll be discussing today. And if as an adult you have come to discover the models you observed were not healthy, you can absolutely change and become a student again learning how to love well, and thereby enriching your life moving forward.
In this week's Petit Plaisir, a wonderful newly released book by best-selling author Will Schwalbe Books for Living.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 2017 and welcome to the 136th episode of the simple |
| 0:50.5 | Sophisticate. As promised last year in December in episode 134 I |
| 0:57.5 | mentioned that today's episode was going to be about love and it is indeed. Today we're going to talk about 26 ways to love fully. In other |
| 1:07.7 | words we're going to talk about how to learn how to love. But before I get to that discussion, today's Petit Plezier is a book that I read |
| 1:20.2 | an excerpt of earlier in December. the book wasn't released until last week, and when I received it, it just became a guidepost or a comfort. |
| 1:36.7 | I found myself welling up every once in a while in certain chapters. |
| 1:48.7 | It's not a fictional book but it's about some works of fiction. It is a lovely night read. You are going to either plow through it or slowly savor it because either way you will love it. I encourage you to stay tuned till the end of today's episode where I'll discuss it |
| 1:55.4 | further. I have a feeling that you will find it worth a weight. But now back to today's |
| 2:02.0 | topic. We're going to talk about love. And the book that inspired me to want to write this post was Leo Busgaleas, love what life is All About. Now it was published originally in 1972 and it still is in |
| 2:20.1 | print. It is still a classic on the topic of love as he himself was a professor in |
| 2:26.3 | California that actually had a course on love. He actually was one of the first |
| 2:32.2 | pioneers to actually believe and |
| 2:34.7 | understandably recognize that knowing how to love is extremely important and |
| 2:41.6 | one of those skills that can help us all in a lot of different areas |
| 2:48.2 | of our lives. |
| 2:49.7 | And so I want to begin with a quote from his book Love what life is all about he states it's |
| 2:55.1 | never too late to learn anything for which you have a potential and the limitless |
| 3:00.1 | potential of love within each person is eager to be recognized, waiting to be |
| 3:06.0 | developed, yearning to grow. If you want to learn to love, then you must start the |
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