BITESIZE | The Wealth Money Can’t Buy: How to Live a Happier, Richer and More Fulfilled Life | Robin Sharma #659

Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite-size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 471 of the podcast with leadership expert and best-selling author Robin Sharmer. In this clip, Robin shares his perspective on why so many people may be chasing the wrong version of success and what it truly means to live a rich life. You have been in the self-help world for several decades now. 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 Camp 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 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.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (24 minutes, 3,832 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 10 episodes for $5, and monthly plans are cheaper still.