Agents of Everything with James Tripp

AoE #008: The Creative Power of Relationship

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Jul 8, 2023
Explore the impact of perception on relationships, change our relationship with thinking, explore tarot card symbolism, embrace death for personal transformation, and embrace the nature of clay for creativity.
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INSIGHT

Relationship Creates Experience

  • Our experience is shaped more by how we relate to things than by their objective essence.
  • James Tripp argues relationship is created by our attitude, not fixed by external facts.
ANECDOTE

Book Moment That Sparked The Episode

  • James describes picking up Richard Carlson's Stop Thinking, Start Living and reading about changing relationship to thinking.
  • He uses Carlson's line to show happiness can change by altering our relationship to our own thinking.
INSIGHT

Happiness Is A Habit Of Mind

  • Happiness and wellbeing are habits of mind rather than outcomes of external changes.
  • James Tripp notes people often remain equally happy or unhappy despite changing life circumstances.
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