Episode-by-episode discussion of Don't Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen — the difference between thoughts and thinking, and why the second one is the source of suffering. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of The Mindset Podcasts.
7 episodes listed below. All 22 are on Apple Podcasts, free, no signup.
Season two opens on the awkward part nobody warns you about: the quiet after the noise stops, and the urge to immediately fill it. Nguyen on what to do with peace once you have it.
Nguyen on judgement, and the gap between what happened and the label you put on it. A chapter that sounds abstract and turns out to be about the thing you have been replaying all week.
The practical heart of season two. If analysis is not the answer, how do you actually choose? Nguyen on the difference between a decision made from clarity and one made from fear, and how each one feels in the body.
Nguyen on intuition as a signal you can learn to hear rather than a gift you either have or don't — including the honest problem of telling a quiet inner yes apart from a loud wish.
The chapter on space. Why the good things in most people's lives arrived in the gaps rather than the plans, and what Nguyen means by creating room for them on purpose.
Nguyen on the obstacles: the relapse into old thinking, the frustration of knowing better and doing it anyway, and the subtle trap of turning non-thinking into one more thing to be good at.
The series finale. Everything from the whole book pulled into something you can actually use — the questions, the practices and the one reminder Nguyen says to come back to when the noise returns.
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22 episodes in this show, 1,100+ across the whole network, and a new one every day.
More chapter-by-chapter shows: The Body Keeps the Score · No Bad Parts · Atlas of the Heart · Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? · The Courage to Be Disliked · Stop Saying You're Fine
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