The next part of this epic journey through Derren Brown’s book ‘Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine’ and the general topic of happiness takes us further into fate and accepting the downsides of life while finding its way back to some core themes of the book. These include our construction of narratives with little evidence, catastrophising and ‘mind-reading’ (ours, not Derren’s!).
We also look at those old enemies anger, fear & guilt, with a little help from our friends the Stoics, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and others. There’s a lot more along the way and I humble believe you will get a lot out of this if you listen with attention and an open mind and try to digest the occasionally complex but always accessible ideas in the book and the episode.
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episode links
Quotes about happiness
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/happiness
Types of happiness (online article) https://www.verywellmind.com/happiness-types-4173234
PDF of ‘On Anger’ by Seneca
http://www.sophia-project.org/uploads/1/3/9/5/13955288/seneca_anger.pdf
Derren talks about his book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJrxrJyymG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DigsvZCXo
Derren’s TED talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/derren_brown_mentalism_mind_reading_and_the_art_of_getting_inside_your_head?autoplay=true&muted=true
TED talk- ‘The Paradox of Choice’
https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choice?autoplay=true&muted=true
Episode 46- Life Coaching & The Inner Game (Part 3 of 3)
Episode 45- Life Coaching & The Inner Game (Part 2 of 3)
Episode 44- Life Coaching & 'The Inner Game' (Part 1 of 3)
Episode 43- Happiness, Derren Brown, Life & Death (Part 4 of 4)
Episode 41- Life And Life Only profiled on ’Luke’s English podcast’
Episode 40- Tennis, Media & Fame
Episode 39- Happiness, Derren Brown, Life & Death (Part 2 of 4)
Episode 38- Happiness, Derren Brown, Life & Death (Part 1 of 4)
Episode 37- Travelling Light/Pure Heaven
Episode 36- The Many Sides of David Blaine’s ’Above The Below’
Episode 35- Legends & Folly- The Remarkable Story of R.M.S. Titanic (Part 2 of 2)
Episode 34- Legends & Folly: The Remarkable Story of R.M.S. Titanic (Part 1 of 2)
Episode 33- The Corporation
Episode 32- Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
Episode 31- ’Unvaccinated’ and the Propaganda of Presumption
Episode 30- The Miracle of Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister
Episode 29- Life And Life Only profiled on ’Pods Like Us’
Episode 28- An Uplifting Conversation About Depression
Episode 27- Nick Drake- The Biography with Patrick Humphries
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