On the 64th episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Johnnie Moore. Johnnie is the Founder of Unhurried, a movement to support deeper conversations and connections in work and life, the author of the book Unhurried At Work, a visiting tutor at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University, and a guest columnist for Fast Company magazine. 

In this insightful conversation, we explore our desire to hold onto stories and perspectives that no longer serve us over engaging with the unknown. Johnnie shares a number of experiences and processes that help him see and seek more possibilities. We discuss shifting from overthinking to experimenting and playing more often, and finally, we explore realisations around awareness of emotions and healthier and more connecting expressions of them. 

This episode will give you plenty to contemplate regarding experimenting and playing more often, and the wonderful shifts that can occur if we open up to what else is possible in this life. I've spoken with Johnnie several times before, and he consistently leaves me with new perspectives to consider or inspires fresh realisations, and I suspect he’ll do the same for you.

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Running Order:
02:47 What else is possible here? Our minds and reality

07:47 Our attachments to stories or perspectives

10:47 Clinging to unpleasant certainties rather than exploring unknowns

16:07 Making sense of this life

21:17 Creating new possibilities 

25:47 Our reluctance to experiment and our overthinking

31:47 We know a lot less about each other than we think

38:17 Realisations of understanding and of emotions

44:17 Becoming more present with and expressing emotions

49:17 Experiencing loneliness and enjoyment of solitude

55:47 What is a good life for Johnnie?