If You Suffer From Depression or Anxiety, You Need to Listen To This | Rainn Wilson (Replay)
Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Impact Theory
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🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Rainn Wilson takes on some of the biggest questions we face as a society today--a mental health crisis that is disproportionately harming younger people, climate change, and an epidemic of loneliness that has only gotten worse with the pandemic.
He discusses how therapy helped him deal with severe anxiety, talks about why service to others is so important, and advocates looking at the data on big issues like global warming.
[Original air date: September 1, 2020].
SHOW NOTES:
Rainn discusses mental health, especially its increase among young people [0:51]
Rainn shares his battle with anxiety, and says it never happened when on stage [6:15]
Rainn talks about the gestalt therapy he has used to deal with anxiety [10:25]
We are most satisfied when we serve others, as that creates human flourishing [15:37]
Rainn advocates compassion for others, and making yourself a better person [21:39]
Gratitude is the number one tool of people of faith [28:08]
All teenagers want to do is be with other teenagers, and right now they can’t [32:47]
Rainn explains how he got involved in climate change [34:09]
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Impact Theory. Impact Theory. Impact theory. Impact theory. Impact, baby. |
| 0:06.8 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Impact Theory. I am here with legendary actor and activist Raine Wilson. Rain, welcome to the show, man. Big it up, big it up, pick it up. |
| 0:18.9 | There it is. Yeah, buddy. It is so good to have you back, man it up, pick it up. There it is. |
| 0:22.3 | Yeah, buddy. |
| 0:22.9 | It is so good to have you back, man. |
| 0:24.7 | Hey, it's great to talk to you again. |
| 0:26.2 | I really enjoyed our conversations back in the day when I was kind of more actively |
| 0:31.1 | with Soul Pancake and on your first show and hearing your life journey is always inspiring and congratulations on the |
| 0:39.2 | success of your show. It's great for you. Thank you, man. I am so in awe of the way that you move |
| 0:43.7 | through the world and really excited to have you back. One thing I want to talk about that I think |
| 0:47.9 | you're doing really well is this is such a crazy time for people, stress, anxiety and all of that. |
| 0:53.9 | You don't eschew the sort of messiness |
| 0:56.1 | of the real world. You're in it trying to find a way to do something that matters to you, to the |
| 1:01.7 | world. And that is so cool to see you leverage purpose and service as a way through any difficult |
| 1:09.4 | time. And I know recently you've started talking about your struggles with anxiety and depression, |
| 1:14.8 | and I would love to jump into that and just understand more about how you've found a way out of it. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah, thank you for saying that and for bringing that up. |
| 1:26.3 | So there's a number of different fields that |
| 1:29.2 | I'm interested in besides the whole writing, acting, producing, directing kind of Hollywood stuff, |
| 1:37.6 | which you know comes and goes has its ups and downs but um you know one is my wife and I do all this |
| 1:43.5 | work in Haiti uh girls' education. |
| 1:46.3 | I'm really passionate about that. |
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