Life, Positivity, and Why You Are Awesome w/ Neil Pasricha

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This week on Sickboy, the guys sit down with New York Times bestselling author, Neil Pasricha, to chat about life, positivity, perspective and RESILIENCE. From Neil, ""We are lucky. For most of us, famine, plague, economic depression, and other life-threatening catastrophes are the stuff of history books. We’re living in an era with the highest-ever rates of longevity, education, and wealth. Cars drive us home as our phones entertain us before we arrive to food delivered to the front door. We have it all! But there’s just one side effect. We no longer have the tools to handle failure...or even perceived failure. When we fall, we lie on the sidewalk crying. When we spill, we splatter. When we crack, we shatter. We are turning into an army of porcelain dolls. A rude email from the boss means calling in sick. Only two likes on our post means we don’t have friends. Cell phones show us we’re never good enough. Yesterday’s butterflies are tomorrow’s panic attacks. Record numbers of students have clinical anxiety. And what about depression, loneliness, and suicide? All rising! What do we desperately need to learn? RESILIENCE. And we need to learn it fast."" We explore this and many other ideas in this incredibly thoughtful and eye-opening conversation with our new best friend, Neil Pasricha. Pre-order You Are Awesome on Amazon today: https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Awesome-Navigate-Intentional/dp/1982135883 Neil's website: https://www.neil.blog/

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0:00.0	It's becoming pretty clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is ripping up the political
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0:30.3	This is a CBC podcast.
0:33.1	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast that talks about what it's like to be sick.
0:36.4	This week's guest is Neil Peserichia, the New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness
0:40.8	Equation and the Book of Awesome series.
0:43.6	The guys talk about life, positivity, and Neil's new book, You Are Awesome, available everywhere
0:49.0	November 5th.
0:49.9	Let's talk about it.
0:50.7	Yeah. Let's talk about it.
1:05.9	But then you have your own biases and your own opinion about how they're being and you put that on them afterwards, then they're not going to feel comfortable, you know,
1:11.4	elaborate on something if you disagree with them on it. If they know that. How do you,
1:15.4	trust yourself or learn yourself to being so non-judgmental? I don't know. That's a good
1:23.6	question. Because I just feel like I've always, I don't know. I guess that's
1:29.6	sort of like what we were talking about earlier is like, is it built in or was there an experience,
1:34.5	is there an experience that comes along and it teaches you something and then from that moment
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