Life And Life Only

We’ve got a special episode for you this time as Antony is joined by 1990s football legend and truth-seeker Matt Le Tissier. The conversation hits on a few topics such as the recent Euro 2024 tournament and some of the problems with the mentality of English football. Antony and Matt then discuss media narratives and the wider agenda regarding sport, especially its propagandistic relationship with national identity.

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episode links

The problem with England (football team)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Jd1IacEwE

Why people love watching football

https://breakingthelines.com/opinion/the-psychology-behind-why-we-love-watching-football/

Matt’s Twitter feed

https://x.com/mattletiss7

Matt on ‘The Mind Renewed’ podcast

https://www.themindrenewed.com/interviews/2022/22-interviewnotes/1533-int-209n

CBD products (use the code Tiss40 at checkout for 40% off any product )

https://supremecbd.uk/

Matt’s top 10 goals (spectacular!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_dVekpn70

To mark Life And Life Only’s half-century, I drove back to my original home town on the day I celebrated another journey round the sun, to share a few personal reminiscences and also muse on nostalgia, memories, socio-economic status and a few other things…

There’s a nice bit of relaxing music to finish today’s episode and an announcement of a rather special guest coming up for LALO 51

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The good and bad of nostalgia (Psychology Today)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-everyday-unconscious/202009/why-nostalgia-the-amazing-power-of-reminiscing

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-everyday-unconscious/202009/the-dark-side-of-nostalgia

John Lennon And Me (Glass Onion: On John Lennon Episode 98- includes ‘The Blind Goalscorer’ story)

https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/episode-98-john-lennon-and-me

A walk through Egham town centre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1TxjwLJ7o&t=297s

A video about the JFK memorial in Runnymede

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g2AWLJfAY0

Bill Hicks plays Egham (no local material included!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gGcI0hxSuo&list=PL97DFD641E4A2A440&index=1&t=43s

Matt Le Tissier on ‘The Mind Renewed’ podcast

https://www.themindrenewed.com/interviews/2022/1532-int-209

Some of ‘Le God’’s amazing goals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_dVekpn70

And so we bring to an end another podcast series as we conclude our whistle-stop journey through some of the highlights of John Cleese and Robin Skynner’s very readable, entertaining and insightful book ‘Life & How To Survive It’, which is presented as an ongoing dialogue between the doctor and the intelligent layman.

The topics and sub-topics this time include spiritual experiences and the various ways of achieving them, being fully alive and awake, death, mortality & aging and the difficulty of change.

As you listen, perhaps you could ponder these questions:

-Are we really living our lives or actually dreaming our way through them?

-Why not devote the rest of your life , starting now, to improving your wellbeing and working on your development and happiness

As is the usual format, Antony picks parts from the book, reads them out and then expands on some of the points made.

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episode links

John and Robin’s 2 books

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20582.Families_and_How_To_Survive_Them

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1518412.Life_and_How_To_Survive_It

Derren Brown’s ‘Happy’ book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30142270-happy

Bill Hicks on drugs and God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFywGDAU3ik

Rupert Sheldrake banned TED talk (The Science Delusion)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg

Rupert with Russell Brand on the ‘Under The Skin’ podcast (Science vs God)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAS-QzWvj8g

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s 5 stages of grief

https://www.cruse.org.uk/understanding-grief/effects-of-grief/five-stages-of-grief/

Monty Python’s ‘Dead Parrot’ sketch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218&t=202s

We continue our sprawling but hopefully enlightening trawl through John Cleese and Robin Skynner’s very readable, entertaining and insightful book ‘Life & How To Survive It’, which is presented as an ongoing dialogue between the doctor and the intelligent layman. One of the many strengths of the book is how it takes concepts and ideas and shows how they can be adapted to various contexts.

Among the topics and sub-topics touched upon in this episode are politics, society and its many forms, the continuing quest for the keys to happiness and mental clarity, the differences between British, American and Japanese culture, myths & reality, and the relationship between religion and mental health.

As is the usual format, Antony picks some interesting parts from the book, reads them out and then expands on some of the points made.

Part 3 will be on its merry way soon

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episode links

John and Robin’s 2 books

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20582.Families_and_How_To_Survive_Them

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1518412.Life_and_How_To_Survive_It

The Id, Ego, Superego concept

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_superego

Waldorf Salad (Fawlty Towers episode) clips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoUH43nI4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIVGX-IkVy8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_uDB-0iBR8

The Secret Life of Brian documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdU_6jUQI9s

Chris Ryan interview on ‘Civilised To Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdThkFaQ4fQ

Review of Matt Taibbi’s ‘Hate Inc.’ (recommended book about the current political climate)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077699020965190

As the podcast nears its half century, we venture into another multi-parter, this time on John Cleese and Robin Skynner’s very readable, entertaining and insightful book ‘Life & How To Survive It’, the sequel to their ‘Families & How To Survive Them’. As with ‘Families’, this book is presented as an ongoing dialogue between the doctor/expert and the patient/layman.

As is the usual format, Antony picks some interesting parts from the book, reads them out and then expands on some of the points made. Part 1 starts with looking at good, bad and average mental health among individuals, families and companies. Along the way, there is discussion of generosity, work, humour, dependence, neurosis and defences and a few other things

Part 2 will be on its merry way soon

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episode links

John and Robin’s 2 books

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20582.Families_and_How_To_Survive_Them

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1518412.Life_and_How_To_Survive_It

The Id, Ego, Superego concept

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_superego

John Cleese’s eulogy to Graham Chapman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH3rIMI-pAg

Indian laughter yoga (try not to laugh!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N60nBD-_Mc

Glass Onion: On John Lennon Episode 99.5 (released on April 1st)

https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/episode-995-paul-is-dead-0

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31jauLZovc

We conclude our discussion centred on W Timothy Gallwey’s book ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’ by talking about nerves, including citing some famous cases of ‘choking’ in sport, and then engaging in a little fun speculation as to who might win the remaining tennis Grand Slams of this year and beyond, in both the men’s and women’s tours. 

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episode links

link to Mr Gallwey’s book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis

A previous LALO episode about nerves (and table tennis)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4BqdMZ3Pd4

Jan Van der Velde’s famous meltdown at the British Open in 1999

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t00AbenIkc

Jana Novotna chokes at Wimbledon in 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miGEqbZkHOo

What exactly are Introverts and Extroverts?

https://www.simplypsychology.org/introvert-extrovert.html

A short animated guide to Sport Psychology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6jj2I_Kn-s

Darrell & Antony continue their discussion of W Timothy Gallwey’s book ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’, which expertly uses that sport as a context to give wider insights into the nature of performance, the mental traps we set for ourselves and how to overcome challenges and be your best self.

Although not an easy thing to do, you may find that at least it’s simpler than you think, and the book (and hopefully our discussion) offers many lessons for tennis, sport and life.

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episode links

link to Mr Gallwey’s book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis

A previous LALO episode about tennis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-BmXL_ajLc

A short animated guide to Sport Psychology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6jj2I_Kn-s

TED talk- ‘Inside The Mind of Champion Athletes’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG7v4y_xwzQ

McEnroe-Borg: Fire and Ice (documentary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvF5ARwXm-M

For our first podcast series of 2024, we welcome Darrell Swan to talk about some of the benefits of Life Coaching before we deep dive into the book ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’ by W Timothy Gallwey. Darrell is a former Life Coachee of Antony’s and also a tennis player with a great interest in sports psychology.

Gallwey’s book expertly uses tennis as a context to give wider insights into the nature of performance, some of the mental traps involved and how to be mindful and let your natural self perform. There are many lessons here for tennis, general sport and life.

This first part of the discussion is the Life Coaching section, some ‘outer truth’ insights and the first portion of ‘The Inner Game’.

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episode links

link to Mr Gallwey’s book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis

The previous LALO episode on Life Coaching

https://lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com/e/episode-19-life-coaching-creativity-communal-experience-mental-health/

A short animated guide to Sport Psychology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6jj2I_Kn-s

TED talk- ‘Inside The Mind of Champion Athletes’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG7v4y_xwzQ

And so we finally reach the end of this podcast odyssey with the longest episode of the 4-part series...

The main topics here are fame (linking neatly to LALO episode 40) and the interestingly similar trajectory it shares with money in terms of how its escalation affects -or doesn't affect- a person's happiness, and then the granddaddy of all topics- death. There’s also some talk about mindfulness meditation here, offering another callback to a previous LALO episode.

Once again Derren Brown turns to some ancient wisdom to illustrate his points in the book, but there are also some fascinating modern takes on fame, death and a few other things. As always your humble host weighs in with his thoughts too, as well as offering a slightly unusual greeting of the season.

It's hard to summarise the many possible takeaways from a 6-hour  analysis of a 500-page book, but with my life coach’s hat on I can only strongly suggest a focus on excellence and full attention to tasks, including the tricky one of living itself.

We also need to understand that we are telling ourselves stories all the time, often about events that we have little or no control over and with little evidence to back up our conclusions. Life is hard but can actually be far simpler than we make it if we can limit these stories and try to relax and live with grace and compassion, both for ourselves and for others.

I sincerely hope you enjoy this final episode and have enjoyed the ones before it. If so, please subscribe, like, share etc...

See you in 2024!

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episode links

Rory Sutherland’s wonderfully entertaining TED talks

https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_perspective_is_everything

https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man

Pure Heaven (story by Antony Rotunno)

https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/24/pure-heaven/

Sam Harris: The Lessons of Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL2uFYi86kk

When I Die; Lessons From The Death Zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2eUw0CUuMc

Derren Brown- Unlock The Secret Power of Your Mind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVblCpr_qAc

Groundhog Day: A Lesson In Happiness (video essay)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT2fqrMjTSQ

The mind-boggling true scale of the universe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7NzjCmUf0

Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

The Psychology of Amy Winehouse (‘Psychology In Seattle’ podcast)

https://www.spreaker.com/user/10958640/the-psychology-of-amy-winehouse-2015-rer_1

Money: Humanity’s Biggest Illusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFO6OtnmEDo

The next part of this epic journey through Derren Brown’s book ‘Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine’ and the general topic of happiness takes us further into fate and accepting the downsides of life while finding its way back to some core themes of the book. These include our construction of narratives with little evidence, catastrophising and ‘mind-reading’ (ours, not Derren’s!).

We also look at those old enemies anger, fear & guilt, with a little help from our friends the Stoics, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and others. There’s a lot more along the way and I humble believe you will get a lot out of this if you listen with attention and an open mind and try to digest the occasionally complex but always accessible ideas in the book and the episode.

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episode links

Quotes about happiness

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/happiness

Types of happiness (online article) https://www.verywellmind.com/happiness-types-4173234

PDF of ‘On Anger’ by Seneca

http://www.sophia-project.org/uploads/1/3/9/5/13955288/seneca_anger.pdf

Derren talks about his book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJrxrJyymG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DigsvZCXo

Derren’s TED talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/derren_brown_mentalism_mind_reading_and_the_art_of_getting_inside_your_head?autoplay=true&muted=true

TED talk- ‘The Paradox of Choice’

https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choice?autoplay=true&muted=true