Josh van Cuylenburg

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2,789 appearances 21 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 20 Sep

Josh van Cuylenburg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Imperfects · Our Phone Odyssey Begins · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, he was like a war hero and indestructible.

There's a story about him being run over by a five-tonne coal wagon and just walking away.

When he was operating in Verdun in the First World War, a bomb went off and he was hit by shrapnel, took on the shrapnel himself and single-handedly moved his patient to a safe distance and kept on operating.

He was this kind of indestructible, charming person.

I never did anything like that, just for people who don't know.

The question that is asked in this book in the chapter in the book is called How to Suffer Successfully.

The question that is asked is, who would you rather be?

This person who's had so much success, so much charm, seems to travel through life with no impedance.

Everything just seems easy for them.

Or the person that feels like everything is a struggle and everything is hard and doesn't seem to be able to do things naturally or as well as their brother.

And

the way that the, um, the way some of the, I may as well quote a little bit here and sorry, this is a bit all over the place, but, um, and this is why I don't want, what I think is interesting about this.

And I think hopefully we can talk about this later is how I think wrong my assessment of you was, and also how you've changed and how I've changed since then.

Um, but it says here, um, in proofs view, we don't really learn anything properly until there's a problem.

And an area in which Robert appeared, the only area in which Robert appeared to trail his brother was his ability to notice things.

But it's worth pointing out that feeling things, which usually means feeling things painfully, is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.

And it was at that point in reading this that I thought, I...

I feel things and I notice things and I'm suffering here, but this doesn't have to be a problem.

There can be real beauty and learning in this.

And it changed my opinion to, well, maybe Hugh isn't superior to me in every single way in my life.

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