Owen O’Kane - How to Become Ten Times Happier and Why Comparison is Killing Your Joy

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🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today’s guest is Owen O’Kane.Owen grew up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and battled his own guilt and sexuality as a Catholic. His experiences have turned him into one of the prominent psychotherapists of our day, and you'll his wisdom pour through in this conversation (and his fantastic books).Owen is a psychotherapist and author of the globally acclaimed and Sunday Times best seller book, Ten To Zen. He has over 25 years’ experience in physical and mental health and is a former NH...

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0:00.0	I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps
0:16.3	some nuggets of wisdom along the way.
0:20.3	This is your invitation to slow down with us.
0:25.7	Welcome to slow more. Today's guest is Owen O'Kane.
0:35.0	Owen is a psychotherapist, an author of the globally acclaimed Sunday Times
0:42.0	Best Seller Book 10 to then.
0:45.0	Owen has over 25 years experience in physical and mental health.
0:50.8	He was a former mental health clinical lead in the NHS, the National Health Health Service in the UK, and he now
1:00.3	runs a successful private practice in London.
1:03.4	He's a well-known speaker and a regular contributor to the press and media
1:07.8	and is also a script advisor for the BBC drama on psychological matters.
1:14.0	His new book, 10 times happier, is available today and it's something that I would recommend you read,
1:20.0	but we're going to hopefully discuss quite a bit of it in this
1:23.6	podcast conversation. I hope you'll enjoy this I've been really looking forward to
1:28.2	it oh and okay. Before we started recording we had this bit of a technical challenges, right? This is just one of a million things that happen in everyday life that stress us and make us very unhappy and yet you come out to the world
1:46.9	with this very bold, very very bold statement saying ten times happier.
1:51.0	Which I have I have to tell you I love that idea. I mean why be a little
1:56.0	happier if you can be 10 times happier? Absolutely. Loved it but but then I have to say I stopped and
2:01.3	then I said damn if we stopped and then I said,
2:02.5	damn, if we can be 10 times happier,
2:05.3	how unhappy are we now?
2:07.0	I mean, like, we seem to have a real issue.
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