Rainn Wilson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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And it's always just outside of my grasp.
And then I get that big movie and it doesn't do well.
Oh, I need the next big movie.
I need the next big thing.
And you can apply this to any career that one wants to undertake.
But what it forced me to do, these mental health issues, was to get a lot of therapy and to do a lot of soul searching.
a lot of meditation and praying, and a lot of reading of the world's holy writings, I feel like that work that I've done on the spiritual side of being a human being and my spiritual reality has brought me great peace and vision
mission and purpose that can feed my creative life and also help me to like write a book and spread the word and also talk to young people about this most great crisis that's happening right now there's two great ones there's climate change maybe we'll get to that later but the mental health crisis that's affecting young people and destroying young people and tearing their lives apart is something that
spirituality does hold some answers to.
So without me suffering, I never would have been driven to read and explore these issues that I've written about, that I would never have allowed me to transform from a hungry ghost into the incredibly handsome international talent you see sitting before you.
One of my favorite quotes that I throw around a lot is, we're not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
And as deceptively simple as that phrase is, for me that means a tremendous amount.
And the understanding that I am, in essence, a spiritual being, and I get 80 or 90 or 100 years, I hope,
in this magnificent fleshy tuxedo running around, is, to me, puts everything into crystal and clarity.
Every day is a kind of spiritual test.
Every day is a spiritual obstacle course.
where I'm gonna be beset with things that are gonna make me impatient or frustrated or feeling less than, and I get to use spiritual tools to help me combat this, what's coming at me.
I know you've also worked a lot in positive psychology, and there are so many tools from positive psychology that are essentially spiritual tools, like gratitude is a great one.
Meditation is a tool that works on so many different levels.
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