BITESIZE | The Wealth Money Can’t Buy: How to Live a Happier, Richer and More Fulfilled Life | Robin Sharma #659
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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
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In your view, What are some of the toxic ideas that are perpetuated in that world that you think are unhelpful?
Getting dangerous right from the first minute. No, it's an excellent question. Well, I think my previous book, Before the Wealth Money Came By, there was a chapter in it called The Big Lie of Positive Thinking. Yeah. And I think our world has in self-help sold us, you know, just be positive all the time. If you're experiencing heartbreak, you're going through a tragedy, look for the gold. I think that's very dangerous. It's definitely toxic optimism because what you then do is you swallow the native feelings that surface in a difficult time, such as anger and disappointment and shame and sorrow and frustration. So I think positive thinking is incredibly important, but not at the expense of ignoring the human feelings that come up in whatever the situation is.
So that would be one. I think another point that might be a little unhelpful is is there might be an inflated sense of what a human being can achieve. I mean, I really am a possibilitarian. I feel deeply about the potential of human beings, but we can't be great at everything. The good news is we can all be great at something. We can all install new belief systems, better habits, better routines, better rituals, and live far greater lives. But that doesn't mean we're all going to be able to do everything. The third belief would be, I think sometimes people get addicted to self-help. It comes like a drug of choice. Let me go to the next event. Let me sign up for the next digital course. Let me read the next book.
without taking great information and then executing on it and making it automatic and a part of your way of being. I think often what we do is we pick up these escapes to avoid dealing with our wounds and our limitations and looking in the mirror. And self-help can be an addiction that causes us to avoid dealing with reality.
Yeah. I appreciate you sharing that. It's interesting. as I was listening to your answers there, it feels as though those ideas, or a lot of them, have merit, but not when taken to an extreme. So being able to be positive is a good thing, but not if you're expecting yourself to have positive thoughts every single hour of the day. I think you mentioned, look for the gold in tragedy. Well, I think certainly in your new book, The Wealth Money Can't Buy, there are elements of how we can use hard times in life to grow. But I think what you're saying there is that We have to acknowledge that this is hard.
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