Today’s show is about the life lessons you can take away from Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet.
We’re talking about all the big key pieces that comprise the human condition: work, love, crime and punishment, justice, freedom, friendship, passion, pain, self-knowledge, beauty, death, and so much more.
Get the book:
Read the book review:
Listen to the show:
Hardcore Literature: The Prophet
If you want to listen in a dedicated browser, click here.
If you want to download the Mp3, click here.
Topics Covered in the Podcast (with Timestamps)
Feel free to jump to any particular theme that interests you:
- 00:00 – Why I didn’t want to do this podcast
- 04:15 – The good, bad, and the bullshit about Tony Robbins
- 07:09 – How to read the Bible
- 08:04 – The line separating good and evil passes through every human heart (Solzhenitsyn)
- 09:50 – What would you have done in Nazi Germany?
- 11:15 – The purpose of friendship
- 14:20 – One of my favourite ways to think about pain
- 16:33 – How to get over heartbreak
- 17:55 – Much of your pain is self-chosen
- 20:05 – Ask yourself these 2 questions
- 21:44 – How to be free (gurus and fighters, affirmations and visualisation)
- 24:50 – The murdered is not unaccountable for his own murder
- 27:03 – Humanity is fucked up – could you be a serial killer or slave owner?
- 29:05 – How to be a more empathetic and understanding person
- 30:15 – Are you too comfortable?
- 32:20 – A rant about the lonely Tinder generation and online dating
- 34:08 – Seek discomfort and diversity
- 35:28 – Brexit, Remain vs. Leave, Trump, Bernie, and Clinton
- 37:05 – List all the things you want but don’t have
- 39:00 – Your joy is sorrow unmasked (sadness is a gift)
- 40:00 – Love and grief is an obligation to improve
- 40:51 – Everything is two sides to the same coin
- 42:15 – Work is love made visible
- 47:32 – How to think about saying goodbye to those you love
- 49:03 – How to think more abundantly
Books and people mentioned in this podcast:
- Man’s Search for Meaning (review)
- Letters to a Young Poet (review)
- The Gulag Archipelago
- Big Magic (review)
- Jordan Peterson
- Tom Morello
- Jocko Willink
- White
Thank you for listening!
If you get a second, please leave a rating on iTunes because that really helps me to know if people are enjoying the content.
And if you have a few seconds, let me know what books you want to talk about in the future!