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The Angry Therapist Podcast

How to Make Sense of Your Life

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

John Kim (The Angry Therapist) is doing things differently. Therapy in a shot glass. Ten minutes, no filler.


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Music in this episode is by Keshco. The Angry Therapist Podcast is Produced and Audio Engineered by Amanda Meyncke, with support from Stephanie Zoccatelli.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is John Kim and I'm a therapist who went through his own

0:06.7

rebirth. I share my feelings and revelations. I believe in casual or

0:11.0

clinical and with you instead of at you I come unrehearsed on

0:15.9

purpose because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.

0:19.1

All right listen I'm not going to tell you what you've heard before which is in order to make sense of your life

0:24.4

you have to find your purpose your passion and then chasing that is going to align your life and you're going to be happy.

0:34.0

There is truth to the traction you get from hanging a life on meaning and by meaning I mean a sense of purpose sure absolutely but we hear that so much I

0:47.8

think it's now backfiring because people who don't believe or are in a place where they haven't found what their purpose is,

0:57.6

then they just get more depressed, right? They feel like there's something wrong with them. And by the way,

1:02.3

I don't think purpose is a one-time thing. I don't think it's, you have one purpose in your life. I think we have many purposes, depending on where we're at and all our chapters, right?

1:14.7

I, even though I quote-unquote, failed as a screenwriter,

1:18.5

I feel that at that point in my life, that was my purpose.

1:21.5

And through that, I learned how to write I taught myself

1:26.7

discipline I you know it created a space for me to be creative like Like I did all these things that paid off later.

1:34.7

And so sometimes purpose comes disguised and you think

1:39.7

that it's not your purpose and then as you look back and in the future you realize oh that

1:45.8

needed to happen it was it was one of the dominoes right so anyway here's what I

1:52.0

believe when it comes to this question,

1:57.0

how do I make sense of my life?

1:59.0

My answer is this.

2:02.0

You don't have to make sense of your life

2:06.0

now this doesn't mean that you just do nothing or you can do whatever the fuck you want

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