I was very sad to discover that Richard Carlson, author of “Don’t sweat the small stuff…“, passed away in December 2006. I had hoped to get him on BTalk to talk through some of the suggestions from the book, which helped me get a lot of perspective on life when it was first published in the ’90s.
Richard’s wife Kristine Carlson continues his good work, however. Her own book “Heart-broken open: a memoir through loss to self discovery” describes how she coped with her sudden loss. And, as you might expect, Kristine has fully embraced the thinking from Richard’s books.
In this edition of BTalk we look at five of my favourites from “Don’t sweat the small stuff…”:
- make peace with imperfection
- allow yourself to be bored
- once a week write a heartfelt letter
- practice ignoring negative thoughts
- imagine people in your life as tiny infants and as 100-year-old adults
There are 100 bite-size practical chunks of wisdom in Richard’s book. As Kristine says in today’s BTalk it’s all about living in the moment.
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Rebuilding Economic Theory The Old Way
Attempts by the Oxford Reviewof Economic Policy to rebuild macroeconomic theory dolittle other than tweak the edges of conventional thinking.
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Is the Euro to blame for European disunity?
The European economy seems to have found itself in sharp reverse, possibly heading into a continent-wide recession. Italy is already there, Greece has witnessed thousands leaving the country to find jobs, and the yellow vest protests show happy unhappy the French are. Then there’s Brexit, of course. In this edition of the Debunking Economics podcast, Phil Dobbie asks Prof Steve Keen how much we can blame the Euro for the perilous state of the European economy.
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Markets go vaccine crazy
“It’s all looking very promising on the vaccine front”, says NAB’s Tapas Strickland on today’s Morning Call podcast – and there’s been a blistering response on the markets.
