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Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Joining us today is Cheri Huber, a Zen student, teacher, and writer. Cheri is the author of more than 20 books – including There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate, When You're Falling, Dive, and Time-Out for Parents. She is also the founder of Mountain View Zen Center in Mountain View, California, and the Zen Monastery Practice Center in Murphys, California.

Cheri is on a mission to help people establish practical ways to deal with the many difficulties of being human. She does this with encouraging humor, delight, curiosity, and compassion. Ending suffering is Cheri's primary goal, and she helps others navigate this spiritual journey by teaching them how to pay attention, expand their awareness, and step back from the judgment of themselves and others…

In this episode, we go over:

How to deconstruct the idea of the ego.
The ways in which the "inner voice" shows up in people's lives.
How to identify guilt, and how to deal with it.
Why most people don't address their problems until they have to.

To learn more about Cheri and her work, click here now!

Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

Transcript

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0:00.0	Before we continue, I've been personally funding the Finding Genius Podcast for four and
0:05.0	a half years now, which has led to 2700 plus interviews of clinicians, researchers, scientists,
0:10.8	CEOs, and other amazing people who are working to advance science and improve our lives in
0:15.2	our world.
0:16.2	Even though this podcast gets 100,000 plus downloads a month, we need your help to reach
0:20.7	hundreds of thousands more worldwide.
0:23.2	Please visit findinggeniuspodcast.com and click on support us.
0:26.9	We have three levels of membership from 10 to $49 a month, including perks such as the
0:32.4	ability to see a head and our interview calendar and ask questions about coming guests, transcripts
0:37.2	of podcasts you're interested in, the ability to request specific topics or guests and
0:41.8	more.
0:42.8	Visit findinggeniuspodcast.com and click support us today.
0:46.0	Now back to the show.
0:47.8	Forget frequently asked questions.
0:49.6	Common sense, common knowledge, or Google.
0:52.2	How about advice from a real genius?
0:54.2	95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified in license.
0:58.7	5%?
0:59.7	Go above and beyond.
1:00.7	They become very good at what they do, but only 0.1% are real geniuses.
1:05.6	Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you.
1:09.6	He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field.
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