Episode-by-episode discussion of 8 Rules of Love by Jay Shetty — how to find love, keep it, and know when to let it go. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of The Connection Podcasts.
One chapter per episode, in the book's own order. Each episode stands on its own.
A student asks his teacher the difference between liking something and loving it. Pluck the flower, or water it daily. Jay Shetty opens on the uncomfortable part of that answer: attraction is the cut stem in the vase, beautiful for a week and then thrown out. Everything in this book is about the watering.
Type "Will I ever" into a search engine and it finishes the sentence with "find love" — the most asked question about anybody's future. Toronto researchers found that fear of being single makes us settle, cling and stay. Leo followed Isla to Austin on no promises at all, and a month later he was alone in a city where he knew nobody.
Three men have now told Emmett they cannot give him what he wants, and he has decided the universe is punishing him. Karma is not a scoreboard. It is cause and effect — the mindset you were in when you made the choice, coming back around as the consequence. Used as a tool it is useful; used as an explanation it just keeps you stuck.
A writer finally says it on a late-night phone call, braced for the fallout, and he tells her not to worry — he loves his mum, his friends, and her too. Three words, no shared definition, and a decade of assumptions built on top. We take apart what people actually mean when they say it, and why defining it first saves you a year.
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4 episodes in this show, 1,100+ across the whole network, and a new one every day.
More chapter-by-chapter shows: Think Like a Monk · All About Love · Heated Rivalry · Taming 7 · This Summer Will Be Different · It Ends with Us
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