Latest Episodes
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Can We Be Actively Indifferent?
Thom’s Nutshell: The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless....
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Demands Versus Preferences
Thom’s Nutshell: If you measure your well being according to how others treat you, you are choosing a life over which you have no...
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Positive Opportunism & Benevolent Manipulation
Thom’s Nutshell: Look for the benefit in all situations - practice positive opportunism. In another passage from Joe C.’s Beyond Belief, Allen ties our...
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Out of the Hurt Locker
Thom’s Nutshell: We all have opinions. We all prefer certain outcomes. But attaching expectations to them is a choice. Disappointed? Upset? Devastated? Check your...
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Let It Be (With Joe C.)
Thom’s Nutshell: Rather than praying for circumstances to change, pray for the strength and wisdom to face those circumstances. “This shouldn’t be happening!” Well,...
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The Five Points of Balance, Part Two
Thom’s Nutshell: Ignoring our own dark potential only makes it stronger. Avoid washing dishes and there are not only more of them, they are...