The One You Feed

112: Rainn Wilson

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This week we talk to Rainn Wilson about the courage to be hopeful

Rainn Wilson is best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office. Wilson also voiced the alien villain Gallaxhar in Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) and starred in the police procedural Backstrom

Today he’s equally well-known for his millions of Twitter followers and the philosophy website he founded, SoulPancake, which creates media about life's big questions. and wrote a New York Times bestselling book of the same name.

He just released a memoir called The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy.
 
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 In This Interview Rainn Wilson and I Discuss...
  • The One You Feed parable
  • His new book The Bassoon King
  • How spirituality got a bad name
  • How spirituality is everything that we don't have in common with the monkeys
  • How happiness is not an if then proposition
  • The difference between happiness and joy
  • The balance between ambition and acceptance
  • How cynicism robs us of the gift of joy
  • How much easier it is to be cynical than to be hopeful
  • Bombing on Broadway
  • How success doesn't mean the end of the difficulties of life
  • The Baha'i faith
  • How the Baha'i faith encourages equality between women and men
  • Thomas Merton
  • Reconciling a loving God with the terrible things that happen in the world

    • ...more
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