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Anxiety is an ongoing battle that happens right inside your mind.

Your mind becomes this never-ending movie reel of worst-case scenarios, and it just keeps on playing. 

When we're stuck with anxious thoughts, we want to find an escape.

Today, singer and songwriter Reneé Rapp, known for her role of Regina George in the Tony-nominated Mean Girls musical on Broadway, sits down with me to share her incredible journey. 

Reneé and I offer insights on how to prepare oneself mentally and emotionally for the inevitable disappointments that life may bring, the insidious nature of self-criticism and its far-reaching effects, and the art of expressing vulnerability without fearing miscommunication.

Self-doubt can be a formidable obstacle to pursuing one's passions. We will also explore the strategies to confront and overcome self-doubt and overcome the role of being one's own harshest critic.

In this interview, you will learn:

• How to understand perception and well-being
• How to prepare for future disappointment
• How to be less self-critical
• How to manage your inner voice
• How to express insecurities effectively
• How to stay resilient in challenging situations

Together, let us transform uncertainties into positivity and look forward to reshaping our mindset.  

With Love and Gratitude,

Jay Shetty

Reneé Rapp’s debut album “Snow Angel” is out now http://reneerapp.lnk.to/snowangel 

What We Discuss:

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:46 Understanding how others perceive you and its impact on your well-being
• 05:05 What happens with you come face-to-face with a stalker
• 06:57 Ways to not prepare yourself for future disappointment  
• 09:03 Why excessive self-criticism can hurt your self-confidence
• 11:20 How do you interpret your inner voices? 
• 14:32 How to find a mindset to help yourself improve 
• 17:45 Cultivating a passion for acting, even when it presents occasional challenges
• 20:41 How do you express your insecurities effectively without fearing miscommunication
• 23:08 Do you let self-doubt keep you from pursuing your passions?
• 26:55 How resilient are you in the most unfavorable situations?
• 35:19 Placing trust in the wrong people can have adverse consequences on your life
• 40:44 How to find a strong inner group filled with trust
• 41:39 Reneé recounts a traumatic experience 
• 45:16 Stay focused on the love for your family and the special people in your life
• 48:03 How can you escape the self-imposed role of being your own harshest critic?
• 50:46 What would you tell yourself now?
• 52:48 If you could unlearn something from your past, what new knowledge or skill would you want to acquire now?
• 55:16 How can you transform the uncertainties in your life into more positive, joyful experiences?
• 01:17 Renee on Final Five 

Episode Resources:

• Reneé Rapp | YouTube
• Reneé Rapp | Instagram
• Reneé Rapp | TikTok

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As you move through time, you exist as a present self who makes decisions, an in-between self who should carry out those decisions, and a future self who will benefit from those decisions. Yet as we all know, in-between self often fails to follow through on what present self resolves, leaving future self pretty bummed out.

The solution to this dilemma, my guest says, is for your present self to become much better friends with your future self.

His name is Hal Hershfield, and he's a professor of marketing, behavioral decision making, and psychology, and the author of Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today. Hal and I spend the first part of our conversation taking a really interesting philosophical dive into what the self even is. We talk about why our future self can feel like a stranger, why it's hard to know what he'll be like, and what this dilemma has to do with becoming a vampire. We then discuss how building a stronger connection with your future self makes your present self more willing to help him, and how you can become closer to your future self by engaging in mental time traveling. Hal shares a couple techniques that can facilitate this mental time travel, three mistakes people make in taking this cognitive trip, and how to start making tomorrow better today.

Resources Related to the Podcast

• "The Self Is Moral" by Nina Strohminger
• Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
• Yuta Chishima and Anne Wilson on writing a letter to and from your future self
• The End-of-History Illusion
• stickK.com
• AoM Podcast #731: A Futurist’s Guide to Building the Life You Want

Connect With Hal Hershfield

• Hal's Website

Every year, Joseph Goldstein does a three month silent meditation retreat by himself at his home in Massachusetts. In this conversation you're about to hear, Joseph had just emerged from one such retreat with a bunch of thoughts on what are called the three proliferating tendencies or three papañca to use the ancient Pali term. 

These are three ways in which we perpetuate an unhealthy sense of self. Joseph has explained that you can think about the process of going deeper in meditation as a process of lightening up or getting less self-centered. You're about to get a masterclass in doing just that. 

For the uninitiated, Joseph is one of the co-founders of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. His co-founders are two other meditation titans, Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield. Joseph has been a teacher at IMS since it was founded in the seventies and he continues to be the resident guiding teacher there. 

In this episode we talk about:

• The framework for understanding the three proliferating tendencies; the basic building blocks of our experience in the world
• Six things that make up what the Buddha called “the all” 
• What non-self means and why it's essential to the Buddhist teaching of liberation
• The two levels of truth: conventional and ultimate
• Why language is so important in conditioning how we experience things 
• How the three proliferating tendencies provide a very practical guide to understanding how we manufacture our own suffering

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/joseph-goldstein-364-rerun

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On tonight's episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, Piers looks into whether their is any hope in the titanic sub search? Also Piers is joined by Douglas Murray to discuss if your child can go to school with 'cat'? and Dave Portnoy, the creator of Barstool Sports joins Piers to debate if cricket is the greatest sport in the world?

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