Toxic World of Self Help: Hustle Culture, Fake Positivity, Addiction & Pursuing Money | Robin Sharma

Over a hundred years ago, William James said: "It is certain that the prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers." We must stop worshipping those who pursue wealth at any cost. We must praise those, especially of the younger generation, who turn away from the paths of conventional success, and towards the paths of their hearts. Our culture must make this seismic shift, for the sake of our souls—and all the inhabitants of our planet.

As a psychotherapist specialised in weight and body image issues, I've seen things changing in the last ten years. Many people come and see me after having tried some of these "just do this and you won't believe how your life will change" advices. They've heard about them through some podcast, on social media or in books. They want quick results, quick fixes. But it doesn't work that way, at least on the long term. It takes time, patience and courage to heal from trauma. I often tell them (when they see me to lose weight): being slim won't make you happy but being happy will help you losing weight. We have to stop letting people believe that their life can improve with tips...

1:28 "you're training yourself for self-respect...the more you respect others, the more you'll respect yourself" Earlier today, before even hearing this, these very same words came to me. It's nice to get confirmation.

“Learning the skill of letting go.” This is something I haven’t yet been successful with yet.

I highly agree that you can't ALWAYS be positive. Sometimes we must embrace and address our negative feelings too. We need to grieve first, in order to let go later. We can't dissociate always. I tried many times suppress my negative emotions, but it always come back to me and literally saying to me: grieve me first. Savoring..one of the best: being present in the moment, literally enjoying every second of that one cup of coffee, being aware in every second of your environment.

Robin Sharma, thanks. I'll find your books and read them. I do have a quibble about words. "Professional" means you get paid. "Amateur" means you are working out of love. Boat builders (amateur ones) say "Professionals built the Titanic but an amateur built the ark." Cheers

Oh, nice paraphrasing around minute 15 regarding people who are not wealthy and Jim Carrey's statement. Way to go Dr. Chatterjee... Such a pleasure to have someone leading the conversation so masterfully, yet humbley. It is almost like you were trying to translate the aspects that might be challenging for both your audience and the people you invite! Amazing.

Our God indeed is a covenant keeping God. Has he said a thing and not perform it? I watch how things unfold in my life, from penury to $356,000 every three months and I can only praise him and trust him more. Hallelujah 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Truer words have never been spoken by both speakers in this podcast duh...consider me impressed tremendously

Too many people are not in touch with reality. It is impossible for one to be 100% hyper-happy all the time. I see some of the younger generations with a hyper-Pollyanna mentality, when confronted with real shitty situations they seem to have a meltdown to where more realistic people will acknowledge the situation for what it is and start to deal with it in a practical way.

Teared up as Robin talked about his parents. ❤

Such a treat, my 2 favourite self help/well being gurus having such a great conversation. Thank you ❤

When you have a problem want an answer or whatever is a concern to you best advice that can help enormously is to me is to tell yourself "All's well" it's going to be alright I'll figure this out so leave put aside trust going to turn out right or for the better "see it"... then go for a walk daily 😊 all works out maybe not straight away but does somehow.

Savoured the entire talk completely. However I have a disconnect with the red flag theory that essentially isn’t a brain child of either of the speakers. Show me a person on this planet who doesn’t have their own share of behaviours that would come across as red flags to others. We all perceive this world with the glasses of beliefs we wear and it’s next to impossible that someone will measure up to our satisfaction if we don’t become accepting of the fact that people are different and everyone behaves in their own unique way in different circumstances. Relationships should not be only about nit picking and skeptically looking out for what’s wrong in others, but finding common grounds where we can connect. There is nothing called a perfect relationship for it doesn’t exist. But since we humans have a huge social need to belong together, we must endure what comes as a part of the package which is people are unique in their behaviours and handling of situations. The ones who are looking for red flags will surely find many and if their belief is firm, they will mostly find themselves alone. And yes, no problem in being alone too if one finds solitude soothing to company which is definitely not going to be as per their expectations.

The title of this video is like you just described the life in NYC to me in one sentence. So accurately true unfortunately.

I needed to hear this today. Thanks 🙏🏻

Beautiful podcast, so excellent ❤

Thank you for this. I have a problem allowing myself to feel sadness because I'm so afraid I'll fall into a deep depression. So I tend to get mad instead.

Love the discussion, so many gems. I do exactly the same in hotel rooms, and have done so for years.

:*** Agree with being up early. I wake up b4 5 am, pray start my day.