Roll On: Finding Purpose

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the third installment of Roll On—my bi-weekly deep dive into (semi) current events, topics of audience interest, and of course answers to your questions. Serving up co-host duties is Adam Skolnick, an activist and veteran journalist is perhaps best known as David Goggins' Can't Hurt Me co-author. Adam has written about adventure sports, environmental issues and civil rights for outlets such as The New York Times, Outside, ESPN, BBC, Men’s Health and many others; and he is the author of One Breath, which chronicles the life and death of Nick Mevoli, America's greatest freediver. Today's conversation begins with a few exciting announcements: an update on a new book I'm close to completing and a premium subscription offering I am currently contemplating. We then pivot to ruminations on a few noteworthy current events. Adam and I share thoughts on everything from writer’s block and cancel culture to the conspiratorial bent that is shifting the character of certain swaths of the wellness community. We talk Kanye, including my experience attending his Sunday Service. We explore the manner in which people become manipulated by the vicissitudes of the YouTube algorithm—and why we should all be on high alert when it comes to the quality of our media diet. And we each share a few tidbits of good news. We then switch gears to answer a handful of questions submitted by audience members on our Facebook Group page: How do you find purpose? What are the secrets to maintaining goals? How can we be more mindful? What is the nature of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias? The visually inclined can watch it all go down on YouTube. And as always, the audio version streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Finally, I would love your feedback to help inform my thinking on a premium subscription offering (don't worry the podcast will always be free). Let me know your thoughts in the survey pinned to the top of our Facebook Group Page, where you can also submit questions for future episodes. We're also going to create a voicemail for future questions to be read on air. I'm having fun with this new format. I hope you find it equal parts entertaining and informative. In the words of Guru Singh, right now more than ever we all need less emotion and more devotion. I challenge you to embody this. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	The Rich Roll Podcast.
0:18.0	Okay, so today I'm back with another, I think it's our third edition of Roll On,
0:25.0	where I, alongside my co-host Adam Skolnek, journalist, writer, environmentalist, activist,
0:33.0	talk about various topical issues of interest and answer listener questions.
0:38.0	Today I kick off the show with a few exciting announcements for you guys, pretty pumped up about that.
0:44.0	We share ruminations on everything from writer's block, cancel culture to Kanye West and alternative health.
0:54.0	We dissect the varying political ideologies of the wellness community.
0:58.0	We explore the ways in which people are so easily swayed by the vicissitudes of the YouTube algorithm.
1:06.0	Why we should all be on high alert when it comes to the media we consume.
1:11.0	And then in the second part of the podcast, I answer some relatively philosophical audience questions on the subjects of finding purpose,
1:20.0	how to better embrace mindfulness, maintaining goals, and how to navigate cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias.
1:29.0	I must say I'm really enjoying this new format experiment. I hope you guys are as well. So without further ado, enjoy.
1:37.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. We're back with another episode of Roll On.
1:47.0	Are asked me anything format where me and my height man Adam Adam Skolnek, break down a couple topics.
1:56.0	We take questions from the listeners and the idea is just to be a little bit more contemporaneous and freeform with this show.
2:05.0	So Adam, how's it going?
2:08.0	It's going good man. It's been a crazy last couple of weeks.
2:13.0	Well you moved. We moved in the same building to a slightly bigger place because my wife is eight months pregnant almost,
2:22.0	where I guess seven months. And through the seventh we're in the eighth month now.
2:27.0	And so we moved to this place that is like so similar to the old place, but just like slightly different.
2:33.0	It's like your mind is like a skip record. Usually when you move, you want to move to a radically different place.
2:40.0	It's like easier to process, but in this case, it's like slightly different. So it was very, it's like a trick mirror.
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