Compassion Is the Ultimate Tool for the Truly Ambitious | Paul Gilbert
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Paul Gilbert OBE is a professor of psychology at the University of Derby, Founder and President of The Compassionate Mind Foundation, the founder of Compassion Focused Therapy, and in 2011 was awarded the Officer of the British Empire, or OBE, from Queen Elizabeth II for his continued contribution to mental healthcare. He's also the author of several books including The Compassionate Mind, Living Like Crazy, Overcoming Depression, and his latest, Compassion Focused Therapy: Clinical Practice and Applications.
This episode explores:
- What Compassion Focused Therapy actually is.
- Why he says wisdom and courage are key to compassion.
- Some surprising truths about your inner critic.
- How compassion can be used to your advantage, especially if you're ambitious.
- The relevance of various meditation practices to cultivating compassion.
- How trauma can impact our ability to access compassion, and what we might do about it.
- The importance of the vagus nerve and its relationship to compassion, mindfulness, and friendship.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey gang, I know I'm not the first person to arrive at this opinion, but it seems to |
| 0:15.0 | me that our society does not sufficiently value compassion and kindness. |
| 0:21.6 | We seem to deeply value things like strength, speed, power, ambition, raw talent. |
| 0:27.2 | You get a ton of respect and social capital if you have acquired, trained, or are naturally |
| 0:33.5 | endowed with any of the above. |
| 0:36.6 | To be clear, all of those things can be great, but why and how did compassion and kindness |
| 0:41.4 | become nice to have, or soft skills instead of holy shit? |
| 0:45.8 | It's amazing you're good at that. |
| 0:47.9 | My guess today is going to talk about how compassion is actually the ultimate tool, the |
| 0:52.6 | ultimate life hack for the truly ambitious. |
| 0:55.7 | Paul Gilbert is the founder of something called compassion focus therapy. |
| 0:59.8 | We talk a lot about compassion and also self compassion on this show. |
| 1:04.0 | It's one of my favorite topics. |
| 1:06.0 | We get a huge audience response whenever we cover this on the show or over on the 10% Happier |
| 1:10.9 | App. |
| 1:12.0 | Paul's approach is slightly different from our much and deservedly Bally Hood former guests, |
| 1:17.6 | such as Kristen Neff and Chris Gurmer. |
| 1:21.3 | In that compassion focus therapy is based in a psychotherapeutic model. |
| 1:25.2 | In other words, it's a kind of psychotherapy. |
| 1:27.4 | Anyway, Paul will explain that better than I am doing right now. |
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