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May 2024
15m 45s

Make Time your Friend

Growth Mindset Psychology
About this episode

Panic less, enjoy more - treat time well and it will treat you well.

Humans have a difficult relationship with time.

It is the medium that gives us all the experiences that make life so great. It also ages us and ultimately robs us of everything we ever have and ever loved.

We cover:

  • How to think differently about time itself
  • Learn how to be less frustrated by things we can't control
  • Questions to diagnose your relationship with time
  • Experience deeper awareness


Life is short but we can be the pilot of our experiences or dragged along in a rush feeling crushed by the weight of everything.

This episode should help reduce the storm and increase the calm.


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Growth Mindset pod

Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.

Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.


Chapters

00:00 How to understand time

03:26 Lessons from '4,000 Weeks' by Oliver Berkman

05:13 How does Aging make you feel?

09:57 How Meditation helps accepting what is

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