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64. You're Not Really in Love
If you cannot stand to be apart from them, you're not in love. You are infatuated or maybe just dependent. The difference between actually being in love or not is the difference between feeling pain when you aren't around them and having no place that you'd rather be. Romantic relationships have a way of being a kind of band aid for a lot of our insecurities.
They make us feel less alone. They can bring some excitement to our lives. They bring pleasure to our lives. They
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63. Why Trying to Fix Everything is Breaking You
What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on...
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62. How to Win When They Have a Head Start
Have you ever felt like other people got a head start in life, like they were born taller, richer, smarter, more connected? Well, maybe they were, but even with all of those advantages, they're still not guaranteed to win, and neither are you unless you stop playing their game. So, you can play your own game. So, someone was telling me a story recently about this guy that was born with a disease that made his spine form abnormally, and the effect was he didn't grow very tall,
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Episode 61. Men Want to Be Mothered
I think as much as the typical man wants to project an image of rugged independence and toughness, what he really wants out of a relationship with a woman is to be mothered. There are two distinct differences between men and women, as I see it, and one obviously is biology, but the other I would say is nature.
The differences between our nature's, is that generally speaking, men are tuned into things and women are tuned into people. You won't find nearly as many women as m
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Episode 60. The Curse of Being Smart
What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on...
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Episode 59. Life Gives More Than It Takes
What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on...
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Episode 58. Stop Looking Down
It is easier to see bad things than it is to see good things. Catastrophe and destruction suck up our attention like a vacuum. It isn't uncommon for the first thing we notice about someone else to be something we don't like. On the other hand, appreciating things that are beautiful and good. Takes a little focus. Unless of course you happen to be a man and you're looking at a woman, but generally speaking, beautiful things like flowers,
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Episode 57. Embrace the Darkness
Humanity likes to fool itself into thinking it knows the world it lives in, but we don't. We are surrounded by darkness so thick that even the light we shine doesn't go very far. But there's a kind of comfort that we can take from living in the darkness because that same darkness gives us permission to stop thinking so hard about what is.
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Episode 56. What Will Fill Your Cup
If we had a metaphorical cup that needed to be filled up to feel contentment, what would we have to fill it with? I know what we try to fill it with. I know we try to fill it with all kinds of things, but sometimes I think the real problem isn't that we don't have things to put in the cup, but rather that the cup has a hole in it.
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