172: Charlie Hoehn - Play Your Anxiety Away • Find Work That Doesn't Feel Like Work • Intentional Acts Of Kindness
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Charlie is the author of Play It Away and Recession-Proof Graduate. He's spoken at the Pentagon, TEDx, and universities around the world. Charlie is the Head of Podcast & Video for Book in a Box. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two dogs.
Today we’re talking about Charlie's experience with extreme anxiety and how he cured it primarily through play and switching to a play mindset.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How he coordinated a huge event for Tim Ferriss
- The 1:3 sleep to wake ratio
- Charlie's slow and steady build to debilitating anxiety
- The various modalities Charlie tried to help relieve his anxiety eg. meditation, supplements, psychedelics, & fasting
- The book that was the tipping point during Charlie’s anxiety recovery
- How play completely cured Charlie of anxiety and depression within a few weeks
- How improv allowed Charlie to embrace what was going on in the moment
- Adopting a play mindset
- Children generally fall into one of 3 categories: secure, avoidant, or anxious
- We can all choose to view the world as a playground and the world tends to respond accordingly
- How to figure out what types of play best suits you
- Start by scheduling in as little as 30 minutes of play a week
- Outdoor sports are one of the best ways to reduce anxiety, especially in men
- Pay to play
- Fitting play into the workday
- It's ideal to find work that doesn't feel like work
- Finland has up to 2 hours of recess a day
- Are tracking devices such as Fitbit’s and social media taking away from the play experience?
- The less screen time you get, the happier you're going to be
- It's liberating to get rid of stuff - minimalism
- Finding an environment/location that supports your wellbeing
- Start smiling and saying hello to strangers on the street
- Intentional vs. random acts of kindness
- The more sleep you get, the better your work is
- The ultimate cheat in life... a 15-20 minute nap
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Related links:
Charlie Hoehn - Play It Away (book)
Follow Charlie Hoehn on Facebook, and Instagram
Charlie Hoehn - Play For A Living (book)
Charlie Hoehn - Recession Proof Graduate (book)
Author Hour with Charlie Hoehn (podcast)
Tim Ferriss - The 4-Hour Chef (book)
Move - Daily activity to stay healthy (iOS app)
Napoleon Hill - Outwitting the Devil (book)
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| 0:00.0 | And normally I would say let's go meet up talk about how impressive we are the types of work we're doing and instead I said let's go play catch at the park. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast. Let's go play catch at the park. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 172. Jesse Chapp is here with Marty Wasserman, |
| 0:19.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:23.2 | This week our featured guest is Charlie Hone. |
| 0:25.6 | He's the author of Play It Away and Recession Proof graduate. |
| 0:29.2 | He's spoken at the Pentagon, TEDX, and universities around the world. |
| 0:33.6 | Charlie is the head of podcast and video for Book in a Box, |
| 0:36.9 | and he lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two dogs. |
| 0:40.4 | Today we're talking about Charlie's experience |
| 0:42.3 | with extreme anxiety and how he cured it primarily through play and switching to a play mindset. |
| 0:48.0 | So even for the listeners out there who aren't experiencing extreme anxiety, there's something in this one for everybody. |
| 0:54.0 | I don't think many of us get enough play in our lives. |
| 0:56.6 | You guys are going to love this. |
| 0:58.6 | It was great hearing Charlie's story. |
| 1:00.2 | It was just very refreshing. |
| 1:01.7 | Jesse and I had a lot to take away from this. Play is |
| 1:04.0 | super important. Some of the points that we talk about in today's show is |
| 1:07.4 | Charlie's anxiety story and how he totally burnt out. The book that was the |
| 1:11.9 | tipping point in Charlie's anxiety recovery, we can |
| 1:14.8 | all choose to view the world as a playground and the world will respond accordingly, |
| 1:19.2 | how to find out what types of play best suit you, and our tracking devices such as Fitbits and |
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