The Overexamined Life

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When I hit something uncomfortable, I suffer in my head. My guest Paul Attia is an overexaminer too, only when he faces a problem, he doesn't just get crippled by it. He analyses it, contextualises it, and builds a framework to solve it according to his values. Then he lives by it, deliberately, nothing left to chance. As an ex cross-examiner turned counsellor, Paul's methodologies are so powerful that some of the world's wealthiest families trust him to navigate their most difficult interpersonal problems. Today he's sharing those frameworks; on relationships, parenting, gratitude, and how to close the gap between who you are and who you're capable of being.

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When confronted with devastating grief, perhaps the most visceral pain humans can experience, most of us hide. We numb ourselves, distract ourselves, and do everything we can to avoid it.

My guest today is Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, who chose a different path. After the loss of her daughter, she turned toward grief rather than away from it, transforming her pain into a life's work helping others navigate loss. Joanne is one of the world's leading grief experts, a professor at Arizona State University, founder of the MISS Foundation, and author of the bestselling Bearing the Unbearable. She has supported grieving families around the world and served on a mental health advisory board for Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry.

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OK so. Earlier this week I spent 10 minutes examining every inch of my naked body in the mirror…an exercise in extreme suffering I undertook in the pursuit of enlightenment because Stephan Bodian told me to.

Bodian is a former monk, psychotherapist, pioneering Western Zen teacher, and the original author of Meditation For Dummies. He also has a brand spanking new book out called Infinite Awakening: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/infinite-awakening-9780834846494

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Recent science has told us that gratitude has the power to do something nothing else in the world can. It can get you off the hedonic treadmill. We go deep into what that means, and look at said science :)

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Here are all the studies with their links:
Emmons & McCullough (2003) — Gratitude journaling, well-being, and physical health
PubMed
Full PDF
Wood, Joseph, Lloyd & Atkins (2009) — Gratitude and sleep quality
PubMed
ScienceDirect
Mills et al. (2015) — Gratitude and heart failure (mood, sleep, inflammation)
PubMed

Redwine et al. (2016) — Gratitude journaling RCT, inflammatory biomarkers, heart rate variability
PubMed
PMC Full Text
Grant & Gino (2010) — Gratitude expressions and prosocial behavior
Harvard Business School
Semantic Scholar
Wood, Froh & Geraghty (2010) — Comprehensive review of gratitude and well-being
ScienceDirect

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If you're a writer, musician, entrepreneur - someone building something in the margins of your real life, this one is for you.

My guest today is Caddicarus: over a million subscribers, nearly 400 million views, and a very honest bloke.

Here's the thing so many of us carry without even realising it, the belief that the moment we hit the number, whatever your number is, life clicks into place. Caddickarus has the number and he still found himself burnt out, hollow, losing the will to make the very thing that made him who he is.

The data doesn't keep you going. The passion keeps you going. The why keeps you going.

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