Your Inner Critic Won't Stop Adding Rules. Here's The Fix. | Julian Shapiro-Barnum
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Your Inner Critic Won't Stop Adding Rules. Here's The Fix. | Julian Shapiro-Barnum

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 202647 min
  • Interview
  • Relationships & psychology

What kids can teach you about how to handle anger, being uptight, and rejection, according to the creator of Recess Therapy. Julian Shapiro-Barnum is a comedian, writer, and interviewer known for Recess Therapy, Celebrity Substitute, and Outside Tonight. He's won seven Webby Awards, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30, and received a Family Entertainment Award from Variety. His first book is How to Grow Up Without Becoming a Grown-Up. In this episode we talk about: The playground question kids ask that adults are too scared to say out loud Why Julian stopped calling it...

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Hello everybody, welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm your host Dan Harris. I have this mode that I go into that I really don't like. It's this kind of heads down, grind through it, bulldoze through your to-do list mode. It's kind of militaristic and mirthless. And I feel like one really prominent antidote to this mode is to be playful or childish in the positive sense of

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So I was very eager to talk to my guest today because that's his whole thing. Julian Shapiro Barnum is a comedian and the host of the phenomenally successful digital show Recess Therapy. You can see it on YouTube.

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You can see clips on social media. And he's got a new book, which is called How to Grow Up Without Becoming a Grown-Up. Julian, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me.

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