December 11, 2025 • 16 mins
Tune in to hear:
- What does Swiss-born British author Alain de Botton have to say about Macbeth’s cynical soliloquy on the brevity and meaningless of life? Why does he state that despair and hope are two sides of the same coin?
- How does storytelling make a truth durable in our minds by linking an idea to an ego?
- Why is our internal dialogue one of the most important stories that we tell? How can we go about making it a more productive dialogue and less self-depricating?
- How can Albert Ellis’ “ABC Model” help us counteract irrational thoughts and cognitive distortions?
- What is an exercise you can work through to help correct detrimental self-speak?
- What is The Significant Objects Project and what can it teach us about the importance of narrative as it relates to valuation?
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