Humble The Poet: ...vulnerability is the only currency we have to connect with people

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Joining us once again is Humble the Poet, a Canadian philosopher, blogger and author. His book, "UNLEARN: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life" was originally crowd-funded and self-published…and became a bestseller. Humble’s new book is called, "How to Be Love (d): Simple Truths for Going Easier on Yourself, Embracing Imperfection and Loving Your Way to a Better Life". His website is https://www.humblethepoet.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:11.4	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:13.5	And joining us once again is Humble the Poet, a Canadian school teacher and musician
0:18.2	turned philosopher, blogger, and author. His book Unlearn 101 Simple
0:23.9	Truths for a Better Life was originally crowdfunded and self-published and became a bestseller.
0:30.0	And Humble's new book is called How to Be Loved, Simple Truths for Going Easier on Yourself,
0:36.8	embracing imperfection, and loving your way to a better life.
0:40.7	Homo, we are so happy to welcome you back to Nobody Told Me, and we absolutely love the new book.
0:45.6	Thank you guys so much for having me back on, and I really appreciate you guys also making the time to read the book.
0:51.7	That really means a lot.
0:57.2	Yeah, absolutely. I mean, like I said to you off the air,
1:05.5	it really is like therapy. I, as somebody who is single right now, I found what you said about about really forgiving ourselves for past mistakes we've made in relationships to be one of the biggest
1:11.8	takeaways that I had from the book. So what advice would you have for people who are maybe saying,
1:17.3	I'm not worthy of love because I've made mistakes in the past. And I want to get over that.
1:24.1	I want to find somebody, but I can't really forgive myself.
1:32.7	So I think the first thing I want to say is let's abandon this idea of worthiness and enoughness. I think there's a popular idea of telling people like, you're worthy of love,
1:36.7	you're enough for love. I want to go one step further and say, let's abandon these measurements.
1:41.7	You can't be, there isn't worthiness when it comes to measuring a person.
1:45.9	There's definitely not enoughness when it comes to a person. Enough applies to do I have enough
1:53.2	money to buy my groceries? Do I have enough gas in my car to make a road trip? A person is a person. You know, there is no qualifying or disqualifying
2:04.0	factor for you to be or not be anything. And the love that we crave and desire is so abundant.
2:12.1	It would love things that even others would consider unlovable. So, you know, so I think the first
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