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The Overexamined Life — 98 episodes

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Love your work or it will eat you alive, with Youtube Star Caddicarus

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50 Shades of Shame: Why self-hatred fuels addiction with Dr. Jonathan Bricker

3

How to Prepare for Your Death, with Death Doula Helen Callanan

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The Most Mind-Bending Gratitude Exercise You've Never Done

5

What If Your Anxiety Is Actually an Asset with Dr. David Rosmarin

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It’s so freeing to stop fighting reality.

7

We’re Not Meant to Feel Good All the Time with Johann Hari

8

How to Stop Life Slipping Away.

9

Are Romantic Relationships with A.I. Healthy? With Deborah Nas

10

Why Constantly Changing Your Mind is OKAY.

11

How to Succeed as a Creative with Adam Leipzig

12

Why you MUST change the way you speak to yourself

13

How to Actually Enjoy Being Alive with Dr. Shannon Albarelli

14

Why Stoicism is Life Changing, with Olympic Gold Medalist Mark Tuitert

15

What Happened Before the Big Bang?

16

Recovering From Burnout with Vic Zerbst

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Regulating the Nervous System with Master Mingtong Gu

18

Why A.I. Doesn't Save Us Time

19

Beauty is in the Eye of the Echidna

20

An End of Year Suprise!

21

Emotional Reflection on the Bondi Beach Shooting

22

Managing World Leaders with Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks

23

The Art of Being 100% Authentic with Margery Ai

24

If You’re Scared of Dying, Listen to This

25

Mental Frame Shifts That Have Transformed My Sleep (NO MEDS)

26

I Got Food Poisoning in an Escape Room Pt.2

27

I Got Food Poisoning in an Escape Room Pt.1

28

The Courage to Question Everything We Believe With Dr. Miriam Schoenfield

29

Slipping Through the Cracks with Katherine May

30

Why Children Should Tell Our War Stories

31

Tim Minchin on Reclaiming Our Sense of Meaning

32

Cancer, Racism and Violence, Through the Eyes of a Buddhist Dzogchen Master - James Low

33

GAME: Is the quote from a spiritual leader or a criminal psychopath?

34

This Podcast Needs to GROW UP

35

Should We Still Be Having Kids?

36

Attempting to Relentlessly Enjoy the Dentist

37

Does Happiness Really Come From Within?

38

My Favourite Tool For Coping With Unfairness

39

Why Sunsets Are Lifechanging - Thoughts from Trancendentalists

40

Why Understanding Absurdity Is Absurdly Freeing

41

What I Learned Living On An Empty Island

42

Grass

43

Arrows

44

Train

45

Childhood

46

Living in Total Darkness with Nate Green

47

How Buddha, Jesus, and Seneca Coped With Anxiety

48

The Meaning of Life with M.I.T. Head of Philosophy Kieran Setiya

49

The Key Idea That Allows Me To Survive Regret

50

Zen and Awakening with Henry Shukman

51

The Poetry of the Colour Blue

52

Love, Beer and Beanbags

53

Finding Nirvana the Hard Way - Lessons from The White Lotus

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Should We Seek Optimism at the Expense of Realism?

55

What You Don't Notice - With Multiple Oscar Winner Nancy Haigh

56

The Joy of Little Details

57

Are 'Fresh Starts' a Trap?

58

Does the Meaning of Life Matter?

59

Embracing Our Wrinkles

60

Should We Have Intimate Relationships With A.I.?

61

Finding Enlightenment in the Deadly Aussie Outback with David McMahon

62

Making Space for the Wild

63

Love, Death and Depression with Jitindriyā

64

The Lost Art of Grace

65

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

66

5 Misconceptions About Mindfulness Meditation

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Is It OK to Be Mediocre?

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What Spirituality Looks Like for an Atheist

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Why Working Too Hard Can Be LAZY

70

Things to Remember When Reading Depressing News

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Emotions Are Such a Brutal Rollercoaster It's Almost Unbearable

72

Why You Must Learn to Love PAIN if You Want to Grow

73

My Goals For This Year

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Music, Freedom, and the Collapse of All My Plans

75

Final Thoughts Before the Clock Strikes 2025

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Philosophical Reasons Why Santa is Probably Real

77

Why You CAN'T AFFORD Not to Practice Mindfulness

78

Our Upside-down View of Animals with the Chicken Ladies

79

Are Cities Making Us Miserable?

80

Why Kids Can Teach Us Things Adults Can't

81

Why We Suck at Predicting the Future - A Taoist Parable

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Humans Are Insane

83

What a Car Accident Teaches You

84

Relationship Counselling for the World's Richest Families with Paul Attia

85

What Would You Sacrifice to Be Rich?

86

How I Found Meaning and Direction in Life ALSO: Listen AD-FREE + Practice Club is BACK

87

The Hidden Risk of A.I. Nobody is Talking About

88

Why Life is Good Even When it's Bad

89

Antidote to Election Anxiety

90

The Blueprint for All-Round Health with Shona Vertue

91

Why Does Exercise Make Us Happy?

92

The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs

93

My Complete Chronic Pain Recovery

94

Turning Suffering Into Wonder

95

How to Never Hate Anyone Again

96

Wrestling with Cravings

97

Let Me Tell You a Story

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Welcome to the Overexamined Life