This week on The One You Feed our guest is Oliver Burkeman. Oliver is a journalist for the Guardian and the author of a wonderful book called The Antotdote: Happiness for People who Hate Positive Thinking.
In This Interview Oliver Burkeman and I discuss...
- The One You Feed parable.
- Why you should ask yourself: "What is the worst thing that could happen".
- Do you have a problem right now?.
- What musterbation is and why you should avoid it.
- Why positive thinking isn't all it's cracked up to be.
- Why focusing too much on your goals can be counterproductive.
- How many wars were started in world history because somebody forgot their coffee in the AM.
- What pop songs can Oliver not get out of his head.
- Why positive thinking abhors a mystery.