440 - Gretchen Rubin: How to Feel Calm & Get Rid of Mental Clutter
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.6 | This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network. |
| 0:12.6 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:14.8 | From an evolutionary point of view where the same creatures we were 20,000 years ago or |
| 0:19.7 | 50,000 years ago, maybe just at a primal level, we don't want stuff. |
| 0:24.4 | Well, we don't want stuff but we do want stuff. |
| 0:27.2 | I mean, I think you're pointing out something very important, which is people do tend to |
| 0:30.7 | project their identity into their environment and objects do remind us of the people and |
| 0:36.6 | places and activities we love and we do want to shape our environment to reflect something |
| 0:41.4 | about ourselves. |
| 0:42.4 | Even when you look at nomadic people, tens of thousands of years ago, they had decorative |
| 0:46.6 | objects. |
| 0:47.6 | They would bury things. |
| 0:49.3 | It's a very human thing to want to have these objects. |
| 0:53.5 | What is helpful is to have things that you have mindfully chosen. |
| 0:58.0 | So part of it is to pick the thing that truly does embody what you want to remember, |
| 1:02.0 | what you want to shine spotlight on and then get rid of the things that are just, again, |
| 1:06.8 | kind of clogging it up. |
| 1:07.9 | So it seems like there is a theme which is that clutter is not necessarily just physical |
| 1:12.4 | clutter. |
| 1:13.4 | It's also kind of a mental clutter of not trying to do all these things that are not necessarily |
| 1:21.1 | kind of central to who you are. |
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