Rainn Wilson
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443 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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And that might be a life lesson for every single person here to just enjoy it more.
Absolutely true.
And you didn't enjoy that as much as you wished?
I didn't, no.
I wasn't in the present moment.
And in Soul Boom, I draw on a number of different faith traditions, but in Buddhism, there's a concept of the hungry ghost.
And in kind of Buddhist practice, we're a few billion hungry ghosts on the planet.
And the hungry ghost is someone who has died, who is living in craving, living in constant craving, and is constantly unsatisfied.
So in the death realm, they're reaching, craving, longing for, grasping.
You just described everyone's worst stereotype of Wharton.
But truthfully, why business?
Is it to make money, to achieve fame, to have control, to have high status?
I think these spiritual questions are very relevant no matter what your career path, but especially to people that are seeking to change things and shake things up through entrepreneurship.
I think it's an important conversation to have.
Yeah, I think that's very well said.
And I really relate to that, by the way.
I think that in order to really make it as an actor in show business, you have to be incredibly driven and you have to be incredibly ambitious.
You need that coupled with talent and a lot of luck.
That hungry ghost phase that I went through when I was on The Office was really one driven by kind of like an unending ambition.
But I think one of the things that I'm most grateful for is the mental health crises that I've undergone in my life.
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