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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 121: "This ONE Small Thing Makes Me So Grateful That I Cry!" - Fearne Cotton

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this moment, the broadcaster, writer and founder of Happy Place, Fearne Cotton discusses how we can find meaning through connection in our confusing world. Fearne believes that connection can be found in the simple things, such as stepping outside of your own heads and the constant noise of your life and realising the greatness of everything that surrounds you. The reason that stepping outside of yourself is crucial, is that it removes your feelings of self-importance that can separate you from the connections all around you.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Bigger than us. The book is largely centered on this idea of meaning, right? That's the

0:08.9

kind of overarching purpose for writing the book. It's trying to find meaning in a messy world,

0:13.1

and at the end of the book, in part four, you start to conclude that, you know,

0:16.8

the real meaning in life is connection in its various forms. So I guess my question for you is,

0:22.6

what is it that for you now is bringing meaning in your life? What does meaning mean to you

0:28.1

in your life now? Where do you find it? I find it in really simple places, like going for a walk,

0:37.4

and that sounds a bit too casual and flippant, but I do. I try and go for a walk every day,

0:44.8

and I went for a walk this morning, super early, it was summer still rising, it was pissing

0:48.8

with rain, it was bloody horrible. But when I'm out, I might be listening to music, I might go

0:53.1

without my phone and just walk. This could sound very cheesy, but I'm often brought to tears,

0:59.6

because I extract myself from the, oh my god, my kids are late for school, or I haven't done this

1:07.4

email, or how am I doing with this, or what's failing with that, or just let it all go. And I'm lucky

1:14.6

to live near a very green space so I can walk around and look at trees and see there's green

1:20.6

parrots in the park, and whatever else is going on in nature, and be humbled by it, because it's

1:27.6

humbling when you really notice it. Or at night, look at the sky. If you're lucky to live in an

1:33.6

area where there isn't too much light pollution and see one star, that might not even be there anymore

1:39.1

because we can't talk about physics, it's going to blow my head off. But you know what I mean?

1:44.2

Look at the greatness of what is going on around us, rather than your phone or the smallness of

1:48.5

what my god, my house is a shit, how everything's messy, and look outside of that, like I have to

1:53.6

do that every day. So we don't get bogged down with, am I doing this right? Where do I fit into

1:58.4

society? How successful am I? All of this greatness, and how short life is, how short life is,

2:05.9

and that in 200 years, none of us are going to be here. That's humbling, it's not bleak, that's

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