Peter Russell: ...how much worry gets in the way happiness (but it's fixable!)

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

All of us have negative thoughts and feelings we ought to let go of—like expectations, grudges, certain beliefs and judgements. But we hang on to them. Our guest on this episode, Peter Russell, says we shouldn’t! Peter is a world-renowned author and teacher who believes the critical challenge today is to free human thinking from the limited beliefs and attitudes that lie behind so many of our personal, social and global problems. Peter’s latest book is called "Letting Go of Nothing: Relax Your Mind and Discover the Wonder of Your True Nature". His website is https://www.peterrussell.com/index.php.

Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back. Shopify makes getting paid simple, by instantly accepting every type of payment. With Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Shopify’s award-winning help is there to support your success every step of the way. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/nobody.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.7	Most of us have negative thoughts and feelings we ought to let go of, like expectations,
0:20.2	grudges, certain beliefs,
0:21.6	and judgments, but we hang on to them. Our guest on this episode, Peter Russell, says we shouldn't.
0:27.0	Peter is a world-renowned author and teacher who believes the critical challenge today
0:31.2	is to free human thinking from the limited beliefs and attitudes that lie behind so many of
0:36.8	our personal, social, and global problems.
0:39.4	Peter earned degrees in theoretical physics, psychology, and computer science at the University
0:44.1	of Cambridge in England, where he studied for a time with Stephen Hawking.
0:48.1	Peter's latest book is called Letting Go of Nothing.
0:52.1	Relax your mind and discover the wonder of your true nature.
0:55.9	Peter, we thank you so much for joining us.
0:58.3	Oh, lovely to be with you both.
0:59.6	Looking forward to it.
1:00.7	Tell us more about the meaning behind the title of your book,
1:05.3	Letting Go of Nothing.
1:06.8	Right.
1:08.5	Yes.
1:09.5	It's actually a slight play with words. It's letting go of no thing. When you think of letting go, we often say, I've got to let go of my, this relationship or this job or this house or what I was going to do yesterday or, you know, whatever it is, our expectations. What we're actually letting go of is not things in
1:29.3	themselves. What we're letting go of is an attitude, a mindset. It's how we see things. So
1:35.5	we're letting go of our attachment. And our attachment isn't actually a thing in itself. You
1:41.3	can't sort of get hold of an attachment like you can, even a
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nobody Told Me!, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Nobody Told Me! and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.