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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Answering Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John answers all of Vanity Fair's Proust questions, and does a deep with each answer. He shares vulnerable moments of his life by talking about his childhood, happiness and fears, his current state of mind and struggles, occasional lies he's told, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago

0:05.6

and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.

0:10.4

I believe in casual over clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose

0:16.2

because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.

0:22.0

Okay question one is, pause.

0:25.0

Question one is, what is your idea of perfect happiness?

0:32.0

So two things I've learned about happy. One comes in moments

0:37.7

so it's not a light switch, it's not a destination, there's nowhere to go.

0:45.0

I think Happy is found, and I think that it's found

0:50.0

when you come to a place in your life where you have the ability to discover happy, to notice happy.

0:56.2

I think a lot of us are not happy because we don't have the ability to find happy, if that makes sense. In two I think it's cumulative I

1:07.8

think happy is an overall you know it's not about today, it's about the end of the week, the end of the month,

1:18.0

it's about, you know, the year, the decade. But if I was to answer this in one word, what is your idea of perfect happiness?

1:29.0

My one word would be peace.

1:31.0

Two. peace. Two, what is your greatest fear?

1:36.0

So, my greatest fear is actually, I mean besides the obvious, which is people I care about love

1:52.0

getting hurt, you know, not them getting sick or hurts, right? But besides

1:57.2

that my greatest fear would be not holding up. So what I mean by that is someone meeting me and saying that you're not

2:09.0

who I thought you were. You're not how you present yourself in your books or you know podcast that would

2:19.2

that's my greatest fear and I think this is why when sometimes I get approached, I think the reason why I put

2:31.8

on my helmet and get on my motorcycle and peer away is partly because I'm an introvert.

2:38.1

It's weird, I'm not used to it, I don't know what to say.

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