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Episode 56: The Biggest Lie We Tell Ourselves

Mittwoch, 20. August 2025 · 31 min

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Here are the further resources that I mentioned in the podcast:

Books:

• Radical Acceptance (amazon.com/Radical-Acceptance-Embracing-Heart-…) - Tara Brach

• 4000 weeks (amazon.com/-/de/dp/1250849357/ref=tmm_pap_swat…) - Oliver Burkeman

• The Tao of Seneca (tim.blog/2017/07/06/tao-of-seneca) - Three free PDFs put together by Tim Ferriss

• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (many different versions of it online as PDFs available, just Google it)

• amazon.com/Awareness-Opportunities-Reality-Ant… - Anthony de Mello

• Mindset (amazon.com/-/de/dp/0345472322/ref=tmm_pap_swat…) - Carol Dweck

• The Gifts of Imperfection (amazon.com/-/de/dp/1616499605/ref=tmm_pap_swat…) - Brene Brown (recommended by Alessia)

• All Books by Ryan Holiday on Stoicism; start with “The Obstacle is the Way (amazon.com/-/de/dp/1781251495/ref=tmm_pap_swat…)”

• The Courage to be disliked (amazon.com/-/de/dp/B07BRPW98K/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_…) - Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi

• How to stop worrying and start living - Dale Carnegie

And if you need a little wake up call, this 7 Minute YouTube Video usually does it for me:

youtube.com/watch?v=M2NDQOgGycg

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