Patton Oswalt: It's chaos, be kind
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
When life hands you an unimaginable sorrow, how do you begin to recover your joy, your connection, your creative spark? In a special crossover episode with our friends at the Spark & Fire podcast, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt (you might know him as the voice of Remy in “Ratatouille”) shares a powerful story about how he slowly reclaimed his creative spirit after a tragedy that left him questioning everything. It’s a story of family, community, and connectedness, co-hosted by Rohan and Spark & Fire host June Cohen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Rohan. Have you ever felt stuck? Like you'd really like to make a change in your career |
| 0:05.8 | or your personal life, but you just couldn't move. Most of us feel stuck at one point or another. |
| 0:11.6 | And here's the interesting part. We actually already have the ability to get on stuck. |
| 0:16.4 | So why don't we do it? Our coaching partner better up, suggest that because we fear change, |
| 0:22.4 | we talk ourselves out of it. Maybe even overthink or overcomplicate the steps we need to take |
| 0:28.0 | to keep ourselves from taking action. Our internal antibodies to change, that is to say fear, |
| 0:33.7 | takes over. As a quick reminder, we're collaborating with Better Up by using meditative story |
| 0:39.3 | and the episode themes to coach you through challenges like getting stuck. If you're feeling stuck, |
| 0:45.0 | Better Up can help because here's what their coaches know. We like to think of ourselves as |
| 0:49.9 | rational beings, but what really motivates us is positively charged emotions that act as feedback |
| 0:56.3 | loops when we need to act. After today's meditative story, I'll share a brief exercise from Better |
| 1:02.1 | Up to kickstart the change you'd like to make in your life. High listeners, we're doing something |
| 1:08.2 | a little different today that I think you'll really enjoy. Our sister podcast, Spark and Fire, |
| 1:15.1 | is launching their second season in partnership with the BBC and we've teamed up to share a |
| 1:20.5 | portion of one of their fantastic new episodes with you. Spark and Fire is a show about the creative |
| 1:26.6 | process in which legendary creators describe the steps they took to produce an iconic work. |
| 1:33.8 | The show features amazing guests ranging from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, writer director Kemp Powers, |
| 1:40.8 | and actor Randall Park. I love how many cross-connections there are between creativity and mindfulness. |
| 1:49.1 | The methods that the storytellers on Spark and Fire share to unlock and maintain their creativity |
| 1:55.9 | are many of the same essential elements we explore in meditation practice. Looking within, |
| 2:02.3 | healing, finding flow, curiosity, community. That's especially true in this episode featuring |
| 2:11.2 | comedian Pat and Oswald. He tells the story of making two of his comedy specials, the first of |
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