Episode 41: Three Stolen Ideas
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I do something pretty different. Rather than take mental health questions, I present three ideas that I "stole" from people in fields OTHER than psychology. However, these are ideas that I think have great applications to life, emotions, and mental health. Two ideas are stolen from Tim Ferriss, who is the author of the 4 Hour book series and has an amazing podcast called the Tim Ferriss Show. The other idea is stolen from Chris Hardwick, who is the creator of the Nerdist network and a television host.
Here are the ideas I would like you to ponder:
- Do I need to gain it the same way I lost it?
- What would this look like if it were easy?
- You can not reason someone out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
Next week will most likely be another Q&A, so send your questions over to duffthepsych@gmail.com or hit me up on twitter at http://twitter.com/duffthepsych
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, kiddos, this is your earmuffs warning. |
| 0:02.8 | This is not an over-the-top raunchy podcast, but if you've read my books, you know I'm not afraid |
| 0:07.2 | to use some colorful language. |
| 0:09.5 | We might also cover some adult topics if they come up in the questions so just be aware of that. |
| 0:14.9 | Finally I need to remind you that while I am a therapist I'm not your therapist so |
| 0:19.6 | please don't try to use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:23.0 | Also, please don't try to sue me. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank you. All right, what is up, ladies, and friends of all varieties? This is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 0:44.2 | Podcast episode 41. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from Southern California |
| 0:49.4 | and the author of the Hardcore Self-Help book series. And this was going to be a Q&A episode. |
| 0:54.0 | If you are unfamiliar with the show, I usually take three |
| 0:58.0 | mental health or therapy life-related questions |
| 1:01.0 | and answer them as best I can. But today I want to do something a little bit different |
| 1:05.9 | and this is different even than my deep dive episodes because this one's kind of a little more random. |
| 1:11.2 | I was driving in my car today on the way back home from work and I had a long drive I had about an hour long drive and I was just thinking and I was listening to a podcast and the ocean was on my right hand side and you know it's one of the situations where |
| 1:28.1 | sometimes pieces just kind of come together and one idea relates to another and |
| 1:31.6 | so what I want to share with you today are one idea |
| 1:35.0 | and so what I want to share with you today are three ideas that I've quote unquote |
| 1:37.4 | stolen from other people and in particular they come from other fields and |
| 1:41.6 | other you know things aside from the mental health industry. |
| 1:46.4 | So let me explain what I mean. |
| 1:47.4 | I'm a big fan of something called thematic interconnectedness. It's a stupid word basically to say when the |
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