The Overexamined Life

just can't help myself peeps. Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo   WATCH THE PODCAST on Youtube Follow Jonah Primo on Instagram or visit his Website Jonah writes on Substa...

Things have been grim but now they're ok because of an echidna :) Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo   WATCH THE PODCAST on Youtube Follow Jonah Primo on Instagram or visi...

A very quick wrap up and we hear from a much requested special guest. Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo   WATCH THE PODCAST on Youtube Follow Jonah Primo on Instagram or...

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The Chief of Staff is 'Part strategist, part therapist, part parent' to the world leader. Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks has interviewed pretty much all of them, and today I realised this invisible right hand is actually kind of important.  Check out Pheobe's book! Here's the  link  for Australia-based listeners, and here's the international shipping  link . Join our Patreon for AD-FR...

Imagine saying EXACTLY what you think, and doing EXACTLY what you feel like doing? Sounds crazy to me, but Margery Ai has cultivated her ability to do exactly that.  Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo WATCH THE PODCA...

Death anxiety sucks up a lot of energy, but even if you don’t believe in the afterlife, there are some very good reasons not to worry.  Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo WATCH THE PODCAST on Youtube Follow Jonah Pri...

3 abstract techniques that have helped me kick insomnia without medication, therefore making life 1000x better.  Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo WATCH THE PODCAST on Youtube Follow Jonah Primo on Instagram or visi...

We'll be back to regular programming next week but I just needed to *get this out of my system* Explicit language warning Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo   WATCH THE PO...

BUT, let everything else, it was an opportunity, a violent opportunity - to learn more about what it is to be human. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TOLclub   GET 30 DAYS OF THE WAKING UP APP FREE: wakingup.com/primo   Follow Jonah Primo on Instagram: instagram.com/jonahprimo or visit his Website: Jonahprimo.com Jonah writes on Substack: https://jonahprimo.substack.com/...

From leaving orthodox religion, to positing that we may be actual literal brains floating through space (and then exploding), Miriam Schoenfield, philosophy PhD, takes us on a rollercoaster ride for our minds - explaining why we should seek the exhilarating thrill of being wrong about everything we believe.  NOTE: I know there's a bit of echo and audio hum in this one, our main recording expl...

Imagine if slipping through the cracks was not a disaster, but a subtle art? Today we settle in with Katherine May, the internationally bestselling British author of "Wintering", whose words have redefined how we think about stillness, resilience, and wonder. In one of my favourite episodes this season, we wander through the land of naps, daydreams and the art of staring out the window until somet...

I find myself chasing the ever-fleeting hummingbird of innocence, that shimmering thing that flits just out of reach once you’ve seen too much of the world. But we need art to keep expressing this. Through the eyes of innocent children. only then do we remember how to feel horror again, unfiltered and unarmored.   Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, b...

My guest today is the brilliant Tim Minchin. You may know him from his Tony and Olivier-winning, Grammy-nominated musical Matilda , his viral song Come Home (Cardinal Pell) , or his unforgettable University of Western Australia graduation address. Tim is a relentless interrogator of the human condition: a skeptic, a critic of dogma and pseudoscience, and a fierce champion of empiricism and evidenc...

WE ARE BACK BABY! Welcome to Season 2, - and what a guest to start off with. We talked about some heavy stuff, but through the lens of buddhism. Like how does a buddhist see racism, the israel-palestine conflict, happiness, what James' own ongoing struggle with cancer looks like, through the eyes of one who is if not enlightened, pretty enlightenedish. Enjoy. Our Guest James Low was born in Scotla...

It’s a wild ride through the blurred lines between enlightenment and delusion. You won't get full marks.  Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo   WATCH THE PODCAST on Yo...

A quick retrospective on the childhood of this show and some strategizing for the future.   Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo   WATCH THE PODCAST on Youtube Fol...

Anti-Natalist, Pessimist, and Environmentalist ideas square up against basic instinct.   Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo   WATCH THE PODCAST on Youtube Follow...

Philosophers Kahlil Gibran and Martha Nussbaum help me to stubbornly LOVE my dentist appointment. Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo   WATCH THE PODCAST on Youtube Follow...

Today we are happy! Why? Can't figure it out. Well we can't just be happy - time to overexamine this wonderful feeling!  Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo   WATCH TH...

Life is unfair. We're reminded of this everyday in little painful moments. Why are some people beautiful? Some rich? Some talented? etc. All I know is unfairness really hurts. Here's where I find some relief.  Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn h...

Sunsets are not just pretty things that happen to the sky, they are powerful reminders that tomorrow is a chance for a fresh start. We draw on trancendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson & anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want t...

When you get down to the nitty gritty, nobody really knows anything concrete. That doesn't have to scare us, if we reframe, it can free us. Today we learn from Albert Camus and Franz Kafka. Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 da...

Life is far more complicated when you're not surrounded by endless ocean. Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo   WATCH THE PODCAST on Youtube Follow Jonah Primo on Instagram...

If the grass is greener somewhere else, it doesn't matter... Sick of being ruled by your emotions? Join our Patreon for AD-FREE listening, bonus episodes, and mindfulness exercises that are actually fun: patreon.com/TOLclub   Want to learn how to meditate? Get 30 days of the Waking Up App FREE: wakingup.com/primo   WATCH THE PODCAST on Youtube Follow Jonah Primo on Instagram or visit his...