Sutterfaction

I’ve found the key is being present in whatever you’re doing. Otherwise we may just always be somewhere else, wanting something else. We may be having great sex and thinking about what we’re eating for dinner after. That’s an unhealthy habit to cultivate, one that zaps our zest and energy for life and living. I think aliveness doesn't start on the edge of a cliff or on some exciting adventure, and...

7 years ago when Sutter was a lost, over-entertained, safety-seeking 20 something, staying in a Hut in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village, he stumbled upon a book called Happiness by Matthieu Ricard, and his views on happiness being a skill, one in which we can actually develop. Ricard wrote “One is not born wise; one becomes it,” and Sutter wondered if we become happy the same way we become wise. In...

Sutter asks the big question: is being hopeful and positive the best way to live a life? He sets out to answer it in his own unique style and engaging commentary, cleverly picking apart his own experiences and the wisdom of great thinkers like Thich Nhat Hanh and Daniel Gottlieb, to create an antidote for fear and anxiety. Is there a better way than being hopeful? Can we change our stories? Is opt...

Happiness is overused, over defined, over commercialized and productized, and thus it has lost its power and impact. But, Sutter uses the wisdom of philosophers to reimagine our view of happiness and how it can make our lives better. Gone is the boring, generic and mundane happiness, instead it is robust, gritty and cool. Sutter dissects the many, many ideas about happiness that have flooded our l...

Sutter explores the adventures that lie within each of us as we navigate what to many is a closed off, COVID affected, planet. He sells us on a new vision for an extraordinary type of travel, one in which we don't have to wait for the borders to open. Using the wisdom from Pinker, Epictetus, Von Goethe, Proust and his own adventures and experiences in 60+ countries, Sutter cleanly and concisely sh...

In this episode Sutter compassionately tackles the concept of entropy, the falling apart of things, and the inevitability of suffering. Using powerful insights from great thinkers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Carl Jung, John O'Donohue and Bernie Siegel to highlight how we can all use the absurdity of life (Camus) to bring peace, joy and fulfillment to our lives. Sutter dissects his own recent experiences...