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Moving Day! – Home is Where the Heart Is – Episode 266

In this episode, Dara is recording for the last time at Hashtag Hilltop – he and his family are about to move for the umpteenth time in recent years. He finds himself reflecting on homes of the past and the countless and never reliable memories from all of them. It strikes him how important the idea of a shared space is. Isn’t the ability to share space a profoundly important matter for all humanity? Isn’t that ability integral to humility? And isn’t it fundamentally antithetical to capitalism?

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Stop Laughing at Me, I’m a Very Important Person! – Episode 209

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In this episode, Dara is concerned about egos getting out of control, and he has two specific case studies in mind – one playing out presently in the Middle East, and one that played out a long time ago on a little Japanese island.

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The Humble Art of Reading the Room, or It’s Not All About You! – Episode 181

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In this episode, Dara shares final thoughts on the US presidential election and speculates that the Democrats still haven’t shaken the patronising habit of belittling those who disagree with them. He argues that if you take this attitude in the world of martial arts, you are setting yourself up to fail – the assumption of superiority is a dangerous flex of ego that can result in complacency and abdicated diligence.

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The Absolute ‘Ick’ Episode – Going Granular on My War with Myself – Episode 140

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In this very personal and occasionally difficult episode, Dara decides he can’t not examine his near four-decade-old impulse to destroy himself. A follow-on from last week’s episode in which he spoke more generally and euphemistically about a recent onset of anxiety-fuelled depression, this time he wants more transparency, more openness, more keeping it real. He understands that for some people this type of sharing gives them the ‘ick’, hence the title of the episode.

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A Hat is Not a Personality, or The Fear of Not Being There – Episode 123

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In this episode Dara is looking into the void and trying not to feel frightened. Thinking about the construction of identity and personality, he is curious about how comfortable or not we are with what lies beneath. He asks if you can handle being left alone with yourself.

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The Cartography of a Small World, or It’s Lovely to be Here! – Episode 40

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In this deceptively positive episode, Dara is emerging from a fortnight of disruptions and disturbances that have laid him low. Over the course of the show, he examines not only the necessary compromises and recalibrations that must accompany a successful recovery, but also the contradictions that can occur in normally reliable wellness strategies.

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Merely

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Merely I’m sorry. I’m just a man. I don’t know what I represent to you or anybody else. I only know who I am and who I’m not, what I’ve done and what I haven’t. I’m not trying to steal air or drink water or take space that was meant for you. I’m not looking

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Every Fallen Tree

Go ahead, hit me.

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Here’s a question. How angry do you think you are? You can give yourself a mark out of ten if you like – ten being volcanic, uncontainable rage, one being the last glowing ember in the grate. We may agree that the upper end takes lives while the lower end has the potential to give

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humility

Moving Day! – Home is Where the Heart Is – Episode 266

Stop Laughing at Me, I’m a Very Important Person! – Episode 209

The Humble Art of Reading the Room, or It’s Not All About You! – Episode 181

The Absolute ‘Ick’ Episode – Going Granular on My War with Myself – Episode 140

A Hat is Not a Personality, or The Fear of Not Being There – Episode 123

The Cartography of a Small World, or It’s Lovely to be Here! – Episode 40

Merely

Every Fallen Tree

Go ahead, hit me.

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