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A podcast about...life and the search for inner and outer truth, with an emphasis on Life Coaching, Psychology and Alternative media
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Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
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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Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
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)
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
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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Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
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
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
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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Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
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)
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
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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Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
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
A short animated guide to Sport Psychology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6jj2I_Kn-s
TED talk- ‘Inside The Mind of Champion Athletes’
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
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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Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
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
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
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.
I hope you enjoy the show! If so, please subscribe, like, share etc...
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Antony’s website (blog, music, podcasts, life coaching) https://www.antonyrotunno.com
Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
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
TED talk- ‘The Paradox of Choice’
https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choice?autoplay=true&muted=true
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Antony appeared on ‘Luke’s English podcast’ in April/May this year to profile Life And Life Only, and here is a compilation of the two episodes, which originally went out on video (see links below).
The topics discussed by Luke and Antony are the podcast itself, Cats, Titanic, Travelling, English Teaching, Life Coaching, David Blaine, Food & Diet, Films, Conspiracy Theories (including the weaponisation of the phrase), Comedy and Happiness.
I hope you enjoy the show! If so, please subscribe, like, share etc...
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Antony’s website (blog, music, podcasts, life coaching)
Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/
Luke’s website and one of our previous collaborations
https://teacherluke.co.uk/2022/03/16/762-meditation-learning-english-with-antony-rotunno/
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
episode links
The video version of this podcast (2 parts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8OPVuQTGhk&t=293s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V53J0wa41hM
The Frost Report- The Class Sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34CsPPw5uM
TED-Ed guide to cats
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-cats-act-so-weird-tony-buffington
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-history-of-the-world-according-to-cats-eva-maria-geigl
Antony’s ‘Travelling Light’ story
https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/24/travelling-light/
What is Life Coaching?
https://www.antonyrotunno.com/2021/07/29/what-is-life-coaching/
David Blaine with Joe Rogan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4LraPdm5YI
Morgan Spurlock food experiment (scary!)
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Inspired by the recent U.S. Open tennis tournament, here’s my take on the grand slam singles finals won by Coco Gauff and Novak Djokovic, the G.O.A.T. debate and the sport and its culture in general. From here, we look at two things that are inextricably linked to top-level tennis and sport- media and fame. There’s also discussion of a very important argument put forward in the seminal 1974 tennis/sports psychology book, ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’.
As well as lauding the impressive achievements of these elite athletes, this episode also looks at the dark side of fame and touches on the cautionary tennis tales of Monica Seles, Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu.
I wish them all a happy life, whether they’re winning titles or not!
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Antony’s website (blog, music, podcasts, life coaching)
Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
episode links
The Inner Game of Tennis summary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-YJePnMrGY
Coco wins and celebrates!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ0XQWWFIAo
US Open on-court interviews (Coco Gauff, Daniil Medvedev, Novak Djokovic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCo3Y6DfrVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGZq7_s0XGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgSXzL7Uwk
Coco and Naomi Osaka have a moment…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Al3IA1sbWE
Sloane Stephens humorous truth bombs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tCu0tKrzhc
What happened to Emma Raducanu?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnPitPzfjCU
Andy Roddick with Jonathan Ross (funny!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j070zjfq0Uc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi5AWJ8aJ4c
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
We continue our foray into the surprisingly complex world of happiness, with extracts from Derren Brown’s 2016 book ‘Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine’ to guide us through, along with host Antony’s interjections and musings.
In this part, we look at a wide range of sub-topics including more on the history of happiness, a look at the Stoics and Marcus Aurelius and their influence on Cognitive-Behavioural and Life Coaching, virtue (signalling), desire, fate, judgement, the psychology of relationships and a few other things along the way. Antony also discovers his new favourite phrase- ‘psychological robustness’.
Part 3 will follow next month
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Antony’s website (blog, music, podcasts, life coaching)
Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/
If you are interested in very affordable Life Coaching, or know someone who might be, you can contact Antony on lifeandlifeonlypod@gmail.com or contrafib2001@gmail.com (the LALO email occasionally gets full of spam)
episode links
Podcasts about, or influenced by, the Stoics and Stoicism
https://philosophybites.libsyn.com/william-b-irvine-on-living-stoically
https://dailystoic.com/Podcast/
A podcast deep dive into Marcus Aurelius and ‘Meditations’
Derren Brown talks about his book
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
Happiness seems to be simple to understand, but profound and lasting happiness is actually a complex business, as brilliantly illustrated by Derren Brown in his 2016 book ‘Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine’. Derren’s very readable 500-page tome forms the basis for this series of episodes on the many aspects of happiness, including its history.
After musing on his recent illness and reading some quotes about happiness, Antony reads choice passages from the book and adds his own interjections.
Part 2 will follow next month
I hope you enjoy the show! If so, please subscribe, like, share etc...
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Antony’s website (blog, music, podcasts, life coaching)
Antony’s John Lennon podcast
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/
episode links
Derren Brown interviewed about the book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJrxrJyymG4
Derren on the Joe Rogan podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFeL7XGwJTs
Quotes about happiness
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/happiness
Types of happiness (online article)
https://www.verywellmind.com/happiness-types-4173234
Alan Watts- Music and Life