Why Dwight from The Office (Rainn Wilson) Is Calling for a "Spiritual Revolution"
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Why, you might fairly ask, am I interviewing Rainn Wilson, best known for his star turn on the sitcom The Office playing Dwight Schrute, the hilariously dysregulated paper salesman with a lust for power and a tragic haircut? Why, you may ask, am I interviewing that dude about mental health and spirituality?
Because in real life, Rainn Wilson has spent many, many years wrestling with religion, sobriety, and marital ups and downs, and he's got a new book called Soul Boom in which he cracks a lot of jokes and also makes a dead serious case for a spiritual revolution. (I'll explain exactly what he means by that.)
In this episode we talk about:
- the role of the Baha'i faith in his life
- why he was so miserable at the height of The Office's popularity
- what he considers his greatest achievement in life
- the importance of spiritual pilgrimage
- the ingredients of the perfect religion, which he insists must include potlucks.
A little bit more about Rainn: he won three Emmys for his work on The Office. He hosts a podcast called Metaphysical Milkshake, and he's got a new travel series on Peacock called Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:21.3 | Why, you might fairly ask, am I interviewing Rain Wilson, best known for his star turn on |
| 0:27.1 | the sitcom The Office playing Dwight Shrute, the hilariously dysregulated paper salesman |
| 0:33.2 | with a lust for power and a tragic haircut? |
| 0:36.6 | Why, you may ask, am I interviewing that dude about mental health and spirituality? |
| 0:42.9 | Because in real life, Rain Wilson has spent many, many years wrestling with religion, |
| 0:47.0 | sobriety, and marital ups and downs. |
| 0:50.1 | And he's got a new book called Soul Boom in which he cracks a lot of jokes and also makes |
| 0:55.2 | a dead serious case for a spiritual revolution. |
| 0:58.9 | I'll explain exactly what he means by that. |
| 1:01.9 | In this conversation, we also talk about the role of the Baha'i faith in his life. |
| 1:06.8 | He'll explain what the Baha'i faith is all about. |
| 1:09.0 | Why he was so miserable at the height of the office's popularity, I found that fascinating. |
| 1:14.8 | What he considers his greatest achievement in life, the importance of spiritual pilgrimage |
| 1:20.2 | and the ingredients of the perfect religion which he insists must include potlucks. |
| 1:27.9 | A little bit more about Rain before we dive in here. |
| 1:29.9 | He won three Emmys for his work on the office. |
| 1:32.8 | He hosts a podcast called Metaphysical Milk Shake and he's got a new travel series on |
| 1:37.7 | peacock called Rain Wilson and the Geography of Bliss. |
| 1:44.2 | Before we get started with today's episode, if you've been around TPH land for any length |
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