1531: Yes Is the New No by Ira Israel on How to Slow Down Life & Create More Meaningful Connections

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

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Ira Israel on yes is the new no. Episode 1531: Yes Is the New No by Ira Israel on How to Slow Down Life & Create More Meaningful Connections Since 2011, Ira Israel has been working in private practice as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC #31) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #50646), teaching sold-out transformational workshops, producing a series of best-selling mindfulness DVDs, and writing about psychology, philosophy, Buddhism, yoga, film, art, music & literature for the Huffington Post, Good Men Project, Mind Body Green, Thrive Global, Medium and Quora. The original post is located here: https://iraisrael.com/yes-is-the-new-no/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.2	Ira Israel. So let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
1:10.9	Yes, is the new know by Ira Israel of IraIsrael.com. There's a wonderful sketch in Monty Python live
1:18.8	at the Hollywood Bowl where four Yorkshire men are trying to best each other regarding who survive
1:23.6	the most indigent and treacherous childhood. Douglas Copeland referred to a similar phenomenon that
1:28.7	occurs at AA meetings as one downsmanship. There's a new game in town in relation to busyness.
1:35.2	If you observe conversations closely, does it seem as if there is some sort of tacit contests
1:39.7	regarding who is busier? For instance, you tell a friend that your day was jam-packed with
1:44.5	back-to-back meetings. And she tells you that she had to fly the organ donor helicopter to Santa
1:49.2	Inez and back twice to save two Nobel Prize-winning rocket scientist twin sisters who both needed
1:54.8	kidney transplants. And you think you had a busy day? I've noticed that a large percentage of
1:59.5	related email responses I receive include the words crazy busy or some derivative thereof in the
2:04.6	first two lines. If I were writing in German, crazy busy would already be one word. Of late,
2:10.1	I've been on the receiving end of that phrase so many times that I'm certain it'll be included as
2:14.0	a single word in the next edition of the OED. Of course, the ultimate manifestation of crazy
2:19.2	busy, the Emperor's new clothes, is to not receive any response at all. Those non-responses are from
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