E38 - Humble The Poet: How to Find TRUE LOVE by Becoming It
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In a culture that tries to convince us that we must buy more, do more, and achieve more in order to attain love, Humble the Poet explains that actually the greatest love is the one that comes from within ourselves. He unpacks the illusion of love that is fed to us in mainstream culture, and how to navigate the 'game' of dating while staying true to yourself. He dives deeps on self acceptance, vulnerability, boundaries, and identifying red flags before it's too late.
Humble shares his own story of coming into a deeper knowing of self love through a painful heartbreak, and how it manifested into his recent book "How to Be Love(d)".
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
4:13 Illusion of love - Mainstream got it wrong
10:45 Love yourself, First
24:01 Self Awareness & Acceptance
31:59 How to be Vulnerable
40:47 Setting Boundaries
46:26 Pattern vs Potential
50:45 Red Flags
54:16 Playing the Dating 'Game' vs Authenticity
1:02:43 Fear of Losing Love
1:05:50 Healing from Heartbreak
1:21:18 Conclusion
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Humble the Poet:
HUMBLE THE POET (aka Kanwer Singh) is a Canadian-born artist, rapper, spoken-word poet, international best-selling author, and former elementary school teacher. He is the author of The Globe and Mail bestseller Unlearn and Things No One Else Can Teach Us. With his tattoos, beard, head wrap, and silly smile, Humble commands attention. He stimulates audiences with ideas that challenge conventional wisdom and go against the grain, with dynamic live sets that shake conventions and minds at the same time. He has performed at concerts and festivals, including Lollapalooza, and has been featured in major media including The New York Times, BuzzFeed, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Huffington Post.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humblethepoet/
Website: https://www.humblethepoet.com
Book, "How to Be Love(d)": https://assist331.wixsite.com/website-2
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| 0:00.0 | How much of who we think we need to be comes from this template of culture and society. |
| 0:05.9 | And then when it comes to love, we're being told these ideas that you have to be something, |
| 0:09.5 | you have to do something, you have to accomplish something. |
| 0:11.7 | And then when all of that happens, then you qualify for love. |
| 0:14.9 | A second date is love, attention isn't love, validation, attraction. |
| 0:19.2 | None of these things are love. |
| 0:20.4 | What type of love are we |
| 0:21.9 | desiring if it could be so reductive? Don't we want that love that is so massive, so abundant, |
| 0:28.1 | that there isn't a qualification for it to exist? But I was in a relationship that after a few years |
| 0:33.6 | ended. At that point in my pain, I was trying to figure out, like, what I did wrong. |
| 0:38.0 | The only way for me to feel like I made it worth it is to continue on this trial and error and figure |
| 0:42.4 | out who I am, because we can continually buy endless things, chase endless things, climb these |
| 0:47.3 | mountains that have no peaks and just live out our entire lives, never realizing that love was |
| 0:51.9 | inside us the whole time. You have to know yourself. Self-awareness |
| 0:55.0 | is the only path to liberation. Hello, beautiful humans. Welcome back to the Know Thyself |
| 1:05.5 | podcast for every single week. We get the honor and the privilege to sit down with a brilliant mind |
| 1:10.0 | and open heart, sometimes a dear friend and somebody that we can learn, be in conversation with and learn more |
| 1:15.8 | about ourselves in the world that we live. Today, my guest is a Canadian-born rapper. He is a |
| 1:21.1 | spoken word artist, internationally best-selling author, former elementary school teacher, |
| 1:26.8 | and his new book, How to Be Loved, is out now. |
| 1:30.5 | And it really, in a beautiful way, challenges the mainstream narrative of what is love and how to find |
| 1:36.9 | it. And so this conversation today is going to be filled with nuggets to come back home into |
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