Dr. Fred Luskin: ...that it's a waste of time to argue with the past

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🗓️ 11 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On this episode, we’re focusing on forgiveness. Do you find it difficult to forgive? Do you wish others would find it easier to forgive you? Joining us is Dr. Fred Luskin, who’s the Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on a variety of populations.

Dr. Luskin is one of the world’s leading researchers on forgiveness. He’s the author of the best selling books, ‘Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness' and Forgive for Love: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship’.

Note: this episode previously aired in September 2020 and is part of our 'Best Of' series.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black. On this episode, we're focusing on forgiveness. Do you find it difficult to forgive? Do you wish others would find it
0:22.9	easier to forgive you? Joining us is Dr. Fred Luskin, who's the director of the Stanford
0:28.3	forgiveness projects, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate
0:34.3	the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on a variety of populations.
0:39.1	Dr. Luska is one of the world's leading researchers on forgiveness.
0:43.1	He's the author of the bestselling books,
0:45.3	Forgive for Good, A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness,
0:48.8	and Forgive for Love, the Missing Ingredient for a healthy and lasting relationship.
0:54.8	Dr.
0:55.0	Thank you so much for joining us.
0:56.7	Hey, you're welcome.
0:57.9	How do you define forgiveness?
1:00.7	Wow.
1:01.3	You know, unfortunately, there's many definitions.
1:05.4	What we do is try to make it as practical as possible.
1:10.4	So basically, it stopped throwing a hissy fit when life
1:14.6	didn't go the way you want. It's not about the past at all, that it's, it's about the current,
1:22.2	like, arguing with your own life. What is Stanford's forgiveness project?
1:28.1	It's such an amazing idea for something.
1:31.1	And we were also wondering how you became interested in the topic yourself.
1:35.3	Yeah.
1:35.9	But the forgiveness project was or is a,
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