330: Mister Rogers and Decision-Making (Emily's Favorites)
The Next Right Thing
Emily P. Freeman
4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This week we'll finish up our walk through past episodes with one of my all-time favorites about Mr. Rogers. I had been wanting to do an episode related to Fred Rogers for quite some time, but it took me a while to finally pull some threads together and connect my thoughts just a little bit. This episode was originally published as episode 103 in November of 2019, and it explores how important it is to realize the impact other people have on the choices that we make for good or for ill. It's about the creativity that can come from frustration, the connection that can happen when we offer a little space, and the generosity that we all have the ability to spread. I hope you'll listen in.
LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:
- Tom Junod for The Atlantic: Mister Rogers's Enduring Wisdom
- Mister Rogers's Lifetime Achievement Award speech
- Order a How to Walk into a Room
- Download the free discussion guide for How to Walk into a Room by visiting this page and clicking the button "Discussion Guide"
- Subscribe to The Soul Minimalist on Substack
- Download the transcript
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to The Next Right Thing. You're listening to |
| 0:04.7 | episode 330. I'm an author, a spiritual director, and an occasional |
| 0:10.8 | workshop leader. I live in the Piedmont of North Carolina with my family. and |
| 0:15.0 | through my work I've helped thousands of |
| 0:16.0 | and through my work I've helped |
| 0:17.0 | thousands of spiritually thoughtful people overcome decision fatigue |
| 0:20.0 | so that they can discern their next right thing in faith, work, and life. |
| 0:25.0 | This is a podcast about making decisions, but it's also about making a life. |
| 0:30.0 | If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes away from the constant stream of information, |
| 0:36.5 | and the sometimes delightful but also distracting hum of entertainment, |
| 0:40.5 | you're in the right place for discerning your next right thing. I'll say a little bit more about |
| 0:45.2 | this at the end of the episode, but for me for now, my next right thing is to take a little |
| 0:50.4 | podcasting break. I promise I'll be back. But first, this week we'll finish up our walk |
| 0:55.5 | through past episodes with one of my all-time favorites about Mr. Rogers. I had been wanting to do an episode |
| 1:02.3 | related to Fred Rogers for quite some time, but it took me a while to finally pull some threads together and connect my thoughts just a little bit. |
| 1:11.0 | This episode was originally published as episode 103 in November of 2019 and it |
| 1:16.4 | explores how important it is to realize the impact other people have on the choices |
| 1:21.4 | that we make for good or for ill. |
| 1:24.0 | It's about the creativity that can come from frustration, |
| 1:28.0 | the connection that can happen when we offer a little space, |
| 1:31.0 | and the generosity that we all have the ability to spread. |
| 1:36.2 | I hope you I thought Mr. Rogers was talking directly to me. |
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