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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Episode 16: The Power of Curiosity

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

John Kim (The Angry Therapist) is doing things differently. Therapy in a shotglass. Ten minutes, no filler. In this episode, John talks about the power of curiosity. Music in this episode is by Keshco, used under a creative commons license. The Angry Therapist Podcast is Produced and Audio Engineered by Amanda Meyncke.  Want to become a life coach? Check it out here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys my name is John Kim. I'm a licensed therapist and life coach putting

0:05.8

self-betterman into a shot glass because let's face it who's got that much time

0:10.0

these days I come unpolished, unrehearsed, on purpose. If you're looking for more of a

0:15.8

wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Being curious about your confusion.

0:23.0

That's an interesting concept.

0:26.0

Let's put a bookmark there and talk about me.

0:30.0

So I don't know if you guys know or not because I've been writing a lot about it. I've been

0:37.0

extremely thirsty to get more on a spiritual path and I've been exploring Buddhism and one of the concepts is about the power of

0:49.6

curiosity and being curious about your confusion. Now what's interesting is I've been talking about

0:56.3

curiosity for years and I really believe that it's it's a superpower that is underused, underdeveloped because instead of being

1:07.4

curious we pull from judgment right and so I believe that if you decide to be curious,

1:15.8

there is no room for judgment.

1:17.1

I don't think that you can be curious and judgmental

1:19.8

at the same time.

1:20.7

It's like you can't be happy and you know angry at the same time right? I mean

1:28.0

you could be happy and then angry or you could be judgmental and then curious but you

1:31.9

can't really they can't coexist simultaneously and

1:35.3

so I've always thought that when we turn our dials to curiosity and through everything so whether we're turn our dials to curiosity and through everything.

1:44.4

So whether we're talking about curious about a person,

1:48.2

curious about yourself, curious about your behavior, other people's behavior.

1:55.0

There is so much more room for compassion, there's so much more room for love,

2:00.0

and at the end of the day Buddhism you know at its core in its simplest

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