RE 60: Is Alcoholism a Disease or Do I Drink Because of My Environment?
Recovery Elevator
Paul
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🗓️ 11 April 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Johan, who has been sober since November 15, 2015, shares how he did it.
Don't isolate yourself and join the discussion in the Recovery Elevator Private Forum.
Come join the ultimate Recovery Elevator meet-up in Peru where we will be volunteering at orphanages with Peruvian Hearts, working with local alcoholics, and why not hike the 38 mile Inca Trail to Machu Picchu while were down there!
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery elevator episode 60. |
| 0:02.0 | My worst memory from drinking was the times that I wasn't drinking. |
| 0:07.0 | The anxiety and the worries that I felt during Sundays and Mondays for example. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the Recovery Elevator podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:21.0 | According to the Recovery Elevator sobriety tracker on my phone, I have been much for he's from Sweden and when he thought he had a drinking problem and needed to take some time off |
| 0:34.7 | he didn't go to his contemporaries or his work colleagues or his friends he went straight to the |
| 0:39.7 | CEO of his company a move that for the majority of us is at the bottom of our list and it shouldn't be. So nice job, |
| 0:46.6 | Yohan. But before we get to the interview I want to talk to you about an email that I received from a friend. |
| 0:51.5 | It was about a TED Talk on June 15, 2015, |
| 0:55.3 | and it was a YouTube video that currently has 4,019,787 views. |
| 1:00.9 | It was a TED Talk video, that was really good. It was really interesting. I don't agree fully with the point that Johann Hari was trying to make. |
| 1:07.0 | In fact, I disagree, but that's okay. Overall, he made some good points, but I think he missed the mark tremendously. In fact after the talk I put my head in my hands and |
| 1:15.8 | just shook my head side to side. The title of his talk is |
| 1:20.0 | what really causes addiction? |
| 1:23.2 | But before we get any further, let me just make an analogy. |
| 1:26.3 | Imagine you go to a seminar on bridge building, and so the guy talks 15 minutes on how |
| 1:31.2 | to build a bridge, from the ends and outs of how you build the most sturdy, reliable |
| 1:35.8 | bridge that will last four decades to come. |
| 1:38.8 | But halfway through the talk, you realize that he hasn't used the word bridge yet. You don't really notice it until you think |
| 1:45.0 | about it. You're like, wait a second. This is a seminar on bridges and we haven't used the word |
| 1:48.6 | bridge. And after 15 minutes after he's done, he'll say, any questions? |
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