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We live in arguably the most inauthentic epoch in history. Big business manipulates and confuses with another carefully crafted marketing campaign. Influencers have replaced elders and authors as the go-to place for advice and support. Capitalism and neoliberalism condition us and then dictate terms. House prices, floods, bushfires, stress, busyness, poverty, and the rest. How can we enjoy our lives amongst all the conflicts of interests, biases, and uncertainty? The Sutterfaction Podcast, h ...
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EP. 25 - The Best Gifts To “Buy” Kids For Christmas in 2023 (AND IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK)
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We all want our kids to be happy. We want them to be healthy. To be creative and curious. Interested and interesting. We want them to be liked, to form strong and beautiful friendships, to do well at school, and to have options. We want to hear them laugh, smile, think independently and critically, to be open, kind and full of joy. And, of course, …
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EP. 24 - Think Tranquillity. Not Happiness. Nor Fame. Not Success - (#7) 12 IDEAS TO CONSTRUCT A LIFE WORTH LIVING
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In this 30-minute discussion, various relevant subjects will be covered, such as technology, consumerism, capitalism, entertainment, competition, and success. The argument presented is that these factors make it significantly more challenging for individuals in the modern Western world to lead a good, healthy life. Supported by research and ideas f…
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EP. 23 - The Queen is Dead and 13 Fast Ways To The Good Life
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Welcome back, this is the Sutterfaction podcast. The show about looking deeper into society and culture, politics, current affairs, conditioning, and all that is around us, so we can then look deeper with more clarity and awareness into our own lives - so, we can enjoy our lives more - more deeply, more authentically, more vibrantly. In this episod…
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EP. 22 - 12 Ideas To Construct A Life Worth Living - #6 HEALTH IS WEALTH
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This is a very cool and important talk that will examine the wealth vs health conflict. It will look at how to: -Eat better, move better, think better -Find balance -Enjoy your life -Create a new recipe for optimum physical and mental health. -Find meaning at work -Make better use of your finite time. For many of us, when we think of preparing for …
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EP. 21 - 12 Ideas To Construct A Life Worth Living - #5 LEARN FOR LIFE, NOT FOR A JOB
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Learning for a job or merely to advance your career is too often one dimensional and rigid, the other - learning for life - is interconnected, holistic and open, and then it flows into all areas of our lives. And, afterall, a life well lived, a good life, has to be connected. Our world is full of people with great careers and financial success, who…
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EP.20 - - 12 Ideas To Construct A Life Worth Living #4 TRAVEL... AND MOSTLY YOUR INNER WORLD
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To construct a life worth living - a connected, interesting, interested and fulfilled life - we need to examine and explore everything outside and inside of us, and perhaps with a greater emphasis on the inside. We can tend to think of exploring in an external sense and think travel in this way is all the exploration we need. Travel is great, but i…
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EP.19 - - 12 Ideas To Construct A Life Worth Living - - #3 BE CAREFUL WHO YOU LISTEN TO
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In each moment it is fascinating to observe just how many choices we are making. These choices shape our lives, our characters, our capacities. And, of course everything around us influences these choices. But, how many are really our own, and how many are merely the result of our schooling, the media, the TV shows and advertising we consume, even …
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EP.18 - - 12 IDEAS FOR A GOOD LIFE #2 Collect experiences, not things
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Philosopher Nietske emphasised the lived life - a move away from a preoccupation with trivial concerns - he told us to avoid the unlived life, and to live boldly and fully. In today’s modern, uber connected, world it is easy to get lost in a pursuit of things - shinier, brighter, faster, better, more. Which makes the examination side, one preached …
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EP.17 - - 12 Ideas To Construct A Life Worth Living - - #1 GIVE UP
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We are told to chase, and strive, to never stop, to just do it, to hustle. To wake up at 4am and keep pushing. That nothing good ever came to the person who doesn’t compete, who doesn’t get down and dirty. You get the picture. You know the picture. It’s everywhere! Sutter opens season 3 of his popular talk series, Sutterfaction, with a piercing loo…
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EP.16 - - Do We Have A Mental Health and Climate Crisis? Or Do We Have A Values Crisis?
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We continue to look at rising mental health and environmental destruction as if they emerge in isolation, we slap on another band-aid to offer short-term relief and wonder why we end up in the same place. In this powerful and punchy 40 minute talk, Sutter looks at Mental Health, Climate Change, Social Media, Consumerism, Capitalism, Neoliberalism, …
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EP. 15 - - How To Find Meaning and Purpose In A Crazy World That Makes Us Doubt If It Is Even Worth Pursuing at all
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How does one find meaning and purpose in life? Is it even a worthwhile pursuit as we navigate an unpredictable and uncertain world? Can meaning bring us more joy? Does purpose lead to freedom? Is freedom the key to happiness? Turn on the TV, open up your phone, walk down the street, and we are bombarded by an abundance of well placed stories that t…
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EP.14 - - Know Yourself or Suffer: The Greek Philosophers said ‘Know Thyself’ is the most Important Teaching. And It is More Important Today Than Ever Before.
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Sutter makes a case for ‘knowing yourself’ as a powerful antidote for unnecessary suffering. He challenges us all to value authenticity as a way to experience true freedom and fulfillment, and help us to not fall prey to the dangers of the pleasure trap. When have you asked yourself, “Why am I doing this?” When have you ever stopped and really anal…
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EP.13 - - How to Explore Life Like a Real Adventurer and Find Happiness on the Way
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What gets us stuck in the pleasure trap, the circle of distraction and dissatisfaction? How do we explore life in a way that is enriching long-term? Is our modern, Instagram fuelled travel the best way to learn about who we are and what we want? Sutter dives into what it means to travel and explore authentically. He brings some great philosophers a…
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EP.12 - - Life can be stressful: Here are 3 Simple Skills to Boost Your Wellbeing and Aliveness
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We can get in the habit of churning through the days without ever giving things any real thought. We get stuck in a routine of monotony and forget all the amazing things we have every single day that we are grateful for. In this short 5 minute talk, in collaboration with 5 minutes for me, Sutter gives us 3 very simple and practical skills to enjoy …
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EP. 11 - - Mental Health & The Modern World: Is Social Media Making Our Lives Unnecessarily Difficult?
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We have seen so many incredible advancements in technology in recent times and we seem to have an abundance of choice like never before, but is it these advancements that were meant to make the world an easier place to live that are actually causing a widespread dissatisfaction with life? In this episode Sutter looks at the emergence of pseudo-vuln…
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EP.10 - - Life is Hard: Here's Some Simple Ways You Can Make It Harder, And Some Simple Ways You Can Make It Easier
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Sutter diagnoses the traits and habits of the unhappy, and provides a rich toolkit of ideas, philosophies, and research to transform our boredom, loneliness and dissatisfaction into joy, freedom, and fulfillment. So we can enjoy our lives, while we are alive. No doubt over the last 2 years as the world has undergone dramatic changes, you’ve experie…
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EP. 9 - - The Most Radical Thing You Can Do To Enrich Your Life (and Possibly Save Humanity at the Same Time)
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Author, activist and social entrepreneur Evan Sutter is at it again with another controversial and highly thought-provoking talk. He tackles our consumer culture and its work in creating lacklustre human beings that just think like everyone else, who lead lives of quiet desperation, choosing things over experiences and TV over friendship. He calls …
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EP. 8 - - Is The Modern World Killing Off Our Wise Elders? And What We Can All Do About It Before It’s Too Late!
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Sutter dissects how our addiction to fast fixes and a modern world that cultivates distracted minds has left a gaping hole in how we receive wisdom and knowledge. He makes a case for how a shift is desperately needed to save our youth and our planet, and how our wise elders (and all of us) can play a key role in making that shift a reality. But, he…
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EP. 7 - - The Business of Happiness: Is Business The Key To Making The World A Happier Place?
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The amazing work done by businesses around the world is limited if no one knows about them and it doesn’t affect how we spend our time and money, and vice versa, our great choices every day are limited if others choices aren’t great - and aren’t great on a much larger scale. Sutter takes us on his own personal journey to creating his startup, and d…
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EP. 6 - - A Guided Meditation on Befriending the Moment
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I’ve found the key is being present in whatever you’re doing. Otherwise we may just always be somewhere else, wanting something else. We may be having great sex and thinking about what we’re eating for dinner after. That’s an unhealthy habit to cultivate, one that zaps our zest and energy for life and living. I think aliveness doesn't start on the …
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EP. 5 - - The Art of Living a Good Life: The Explorer and the Peaceful Fool
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7 years ago when Sutter was a lost, over-entertained, safety-seeking 20 something, staying in a Hut in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village, he stumbled upon a book called Happiness by Matthieu Ricard, and his views on happiness being a skill, one in which we can actually develop. Ricard wrote “One is not born wise; one becomes it,” and Sutter wondered i…
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EP. 4 - - Is Being Hopeful And Positive The Best Way To Live A Life? The Dreamer, The Thinker & The Doer
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Sutter asks the big question: is being hopeful and positive the best way to live a life? He sets out to answer it in his own unique style and engaging commentary, cleverly picking apart his own experiences and the wisdom of great thinkers like Thich Nhat Hanh and Daniel Gottlieb, to create an antidote for fear and anxiety. Is there a better way tha…
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EP.3 - - A Brief History Of Happiness and How It Can Make You Happier: The Seeker & The Controller
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Happiness is overused, over defined, over commercialized and productized, and thus it has lost its power and impact. But, Sutter uses the wisdom of philosophers to reimagine our view of happiness and how it can make our lives better. Gone is the boring, generic and mundane happiness, instead it is robust, gritty and cool. Sutter dissects the many, …
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EP. 2 -- How The Great Explorers Conquer Themselves First: The Traveller, The Sandcastle & The Influencer
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Sutter explores the adventures that lie within each of us as we navigate what to many is a closed off, COVID affected, planet. He sells us on a new vision for an extraordinary type of travel, one in which we don't have to wait for the borders to open. Using the wisdom from Pinker, Epictetus, Von Goethe, Proust and his own adventures and experiences…
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EP. 1 - - How To Enjoy Loneliness, Play in Boredom & Thrive in Uncertainty: The Grasper, The Runner & The Ten-Chi Master
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In this episode Sutter compassionately tackles the concept of entropy, the falling apart of things, and the inevitability of suffering. Using powerful insights from great thinkers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Carl Jung, John O'Donohue and Bernie Siegel to highlight how we can all use the absurdity of life (Camus) to bring peace, joy and fulfillment to our…
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