Episode 42: Happiness, Derren Brown, Life & Death (Part 3 of 4)

Life And Life Only - Un podcast de Antony Rotunno

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.   I hope you enjoy the show! If so, please subscribe, like, share etc... Facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/lifeandlife75 Twitter- https://twitter.com/lifeonly75 Feedback to [email protected] Support the show at: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/antonyrotunno OR https://www.buymeacoffee.com/antonyrotunno   Antony’s website (blog, music, podcasts, life coaching) https://www.antonyrotunno.com Antony’s John Lennon podcast https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on [email protected] or [email protected] (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)   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  

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