The Courage to Choose Your Own Life w/ Jodie Cook | Ep 403
The Futur with Chris Do
The Futur
4.9 • 998 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Jody, I'm very excited to talk to you today because we're going to talk about your favorite book. |
| 0:05.4 | And this nomadic lifestyle that you have, you don't have many worldly possessions. |
| 0:09.1 | Naturally, you have to, like, live lightly. |
| 0:11.3 | But you told me recently, and I was surprised about this, you only have one book with you. |
| 0:15.3 | You have many books, but you only have one physical copy of a good old-fashioned analog book. |
| 0:20.2 | And that book is, |
| 0:21.6 | The Courage to be disliked. And just to put it into perspective, I have 23 kilos of possessions |
| 0:31.4 | in the whole world, because that's the luggage allowance. And this forms part of my 23 kilos |
| 0:37.3 | of possessions. I take it everywhere. It's so |
| 0:40.2 | well loved. It's got highlights. It's got there's just, yeah, I read it again and again. I highlight in |
| 0:45.2 | different colors every time I go through it. It's a, I just love it. It's kind of like your Bible then. |
| 0:49.9 | Yeah, I think so. I've told my friends, if I ever say in the book it says this, they never need to say which book. It's always this book. Okay. So yeah, I guess it is. And it hasn't always been my Bible. I feel like my Bible used to be the four-hour work week. And before that, it was the e-myth. And then it's been various different ones. But the moment I read this one, it became the new book, the real book. |
| 1:11.7 | Okay, you've been converted to the religion, then, the courage to be disliked. |
| 1:15.1 | Yeah, I could do a intro of the book type thing. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, let's do that in a second. So today's episode is going to be a little bit different |
| 1:23.5 | because I have had the copy of the book, mostly because I'm intrigued by titles of books. I buy lots of books. I don't read many of them and I just sit down on the shelf. And then Jody one day says to me on a pod, have you read this book? I'm like, I haven't, but I have it. It spoke to me the courage to be disliked. I get the whole concept of the book right in the name of the book. And you go, you must read it. It's one of my favorite books. So I'm a new convert. I've recently am reading it. I'm not done. I'm about halfway through. I get the gist. And just to set up the book and just what I know of it so far, it does speak to me. Now, I can't remember where I read this. Maybe it was |
| 2:01.8 | a post by one of my favorite authors somewhere online that said something like reading a great book |
| 2:06.2 | is like someone putting your thoughts on paper. I was like, this feels like that kind of book. |
| 2:13.3 | Many books I read, I'm like, gosh, these are things that I think about all the time. |
| 2:18.1 | And it's so weird that some other human being who's much smarter, wiser than myself, |
| 2:23.2 | much more well-lived or worldly, has written a book. |
| 2:26.4 | And I'm like, wait, we think the same thing. |
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