Martha Beck — The Amazing and Brutal Results of Zero Lies for 365 Days, How to Do a Beginner “Integrity Cleanse,” Lessons from Lion Trackers, and Novel Tactics for Reducing Anxiety (#732)

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“It’s never true to hate yourself or to condemn yourself.” — Martha Beck



Dr. Martha Beck ( @themarthabeck ) has been called “the best-known life coach in America” by NPR and USA Today. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science and has published nine non-fiction books, one novel, and more than 200 magazine articles. The Guardian and other media have described her as “Oprah’s life coach.”



Her recent book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self , was an instant New York Times Best Seller and an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Her next book, Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose , is expected in early 2025.



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#571: Boyd Varty — The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life



SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE




Connect with Martha Beck :




Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn




Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose by Martha Beck | Amazon



Bewildered Podcast



The Gathering Room Podcast



The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck | Amazon



The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon



Boyd Varty — The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life | The Tim Ferriss Show #571



The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life by Boyd Varty | Amazon



Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith by Martha Beck | Amazon



Londolozi Game Reserve



Full Circle by Dave Varty | Amazon



The Lion Tracker’s Guide To Life Quotes by Boyd Varty | Goodreads



How to Track Your Life’s Purpose | Martha Beck



The Porcupine and the Tamboti Tree | Londolozi Blog



Tracking Lion | Londolozi Blog



“Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Magic.” | CCCB LAB



Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month | Tim Ferriss



Lamont Library | Harvard Library



The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Academy of American Poets



Croc Attacks Son of Conservationist | IOL



What Makes Crocodiles Such Stealthy Hunters? | Londolozi Blog



About Down Syndrome | National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS)



Have You Ever Tracked a White Rhino? | Londolozi Blog



A Mormon Daughter’s Book Stirs a Storm | The New York Times



Woo-Woo Definition & Meaning | Merriam-Webster



The Survival Specialist | The Guardian



Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy



Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #585



The Integrity Cleanse DIY Workbook | Martha Beck



I Think You’re Fat by A.J. Jacobs | Esquire



The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri | Amazon



Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare | Folger Shakespeare Library



Stoicism vs. Hedonism: What’s the Difference? | Orion Philosophy



The Addictive Puzzle Game That Started It All! | Tetris



Nice Work If You Can Get It | Bewildered #49



Calm Down, We Can Do Both! | The Gathering Room Podcast #126



Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path: Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, Index Cards, Integrity Checks, Grief, Awe, and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show #430



“Adulthood Is Emailing ‘Sorry for the Delayed Response!’ Back and Forth until One of You Dies.” | Marissa Miller, Twitter



Sorry for the Delayed Response | The New Yorker



‘New Yorker’ Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It | NPR



It’s All Chinese To Me? | It’s All Greek To Me



The Significance of Oranges Around Lunar New Year, Explained | Time



What Is Zen Buddhism and How Do You Practice It? | Lion’s Roar



Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell | Amazon



The Great British Baking Show | Netflix



The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon



Sweet Vs. Savory | The Daily Nexus



A Strange Place to Find Comfort | The Gathering Room Podcast #112



The Formula for Happiness | Martha Beck



When You Want Not to Want What You Want | The Gathering Room Podcast #99



Compare Models | Tesla



We Asked Leaf Blower Guys if They Know How Annoying They Are | Vice



Andrés Segovia: The Father Of Classical Guitar (1975) | YouTube



Cananga Odorata (Ylang-Ylang) | Wikipedia



Why Do My Dog’s Feet Smell Like Fritos or Corn Chips? | AKC



Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) | Psychology Today



Efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Reducing Suicidal Ideation and Deliberate Self-Harm: Systematic Review | JMIR Mental Health



Perissodactyla | Wikipedia



Luxury Safari Experience in South Africa | Sabi Sands Nature Reserve



Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie | Amazon



The Work | Byron Katie



A Stillness within Stephen Mitchell | Los Angeles Times



Faust: A Tragedy in Two Parts and the Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Amazon



Language. Culture. Germany. | Goethe-Institut USA



Goethe: The Smartest Man in History? | Mystery Scoop



How to Live Like a Rock Star (or Tango Star) in Buenos Aires… | Tim Ferriss



What the Stroop Effect Reveals About Our Minds | Lesley University



What is Neurodiversity? | Harvard Health



Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight | TED Talk



Spaghetti Tower Marshmallow Challenge | TinkerLab



Awakening Your Magician | The Gathering Room Podcast #144



All of Creation | Martha Beck



Activity: Mirror Writing | Museum of Science



Figure Study Tool | Line of Action



Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 | The University of the Arts



What is Internal Family Systems? | IFS Institute



Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition by Richard C. Schwartz and Martha Sweezy | Amazon



Richard Schwartz — IFS, Psychedelic Experiences without Drugs, and Finding Inner Peace for Our Many Parts | The Tim Ferriss Show #492



Self-Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness Using IFS, A Cutting-Edge Psychotherapy by Jay Earley and Karen Donnely | Amazon



Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach | Amazon



A Mother Cheetah Reveals Her Tiny Cubs | Londolozi TV



A Cat’s Best Friend | San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Stories



The Merchant of Just Be Happy | The New York Times



Koelle Simpson’s Equine Therapy | Oprah.com



Capuchin Facts | Costa Rica Wildlife Guide



The Magical Corner of Intention and Invention | The Gathering Room Podcast #155



A Tale of a Troop of Baboons | Londolozi Blog



Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art by Lewis Hyde | Amazon




SHOW NOTES




[06:06] My contribution to teen atrociousness.



[06:40] Connecting with Boyd Varty.



[12:27] The path of not here.



[16:38] Finding joy in the body can save your life.



[21:17] The pregnant pause that ended Martha’s obsession with intellect.



[26:51] Sensitivity and suffering.



[30:14] The year of living lie-lessly.



[35:36] An illuminating change of perspective.



[46:14] The path to taking a black belt integrity cleanse.



[49:42] Owning your right to say “No.”



[53:45] Alternatives to “No” that remain honest.



[57:11] The language of candor.



[59:30] Ending relationships that have run their course.



[01:00:37] The Asian influence.



[01:04:26] Sweet or savory?



[01:05:36] Are you comfortable?



[01:07:29] Want vs. yearning and jumping the track.



[01:20:36] Rhino ruminations.



[01:22:06] The Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell, and Byron Katie.



[01:33:19] America’s Goethe?



[01:36:20] Weighing kryptonite against superpowers.



[01:44:50] Exploring the opposite of anxiety.



[01:56:38] Dick Schwartz and Internal Family Systems.



[02:01:57] Compassion even for the self’s unwanted pieces.



[02:04:20] Favorite animal.



[02:08:58] Equine therapy.



[02:15:06] Selling the ranch.



[02:18:05] The monkey whisperer.



[02:20:05] Parting thoughts.




MORE MARTHA BECK QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW



“It’s never true to hate yourself or to condemn yourself.”



— Martha Beck



“There’s a level beyond just telling the truth and it is called compassion — and it’s truer.”



— Martha Beck



“When you’re saying ‘Get away, I don’t want you,’ the part of you that does insomnia and depression goes into a panic because it’s now being told it can’t belong. You don’t want it, you’ve rejected it. It ups the ante and all it knows how to do is keep you awake and make you depressed.”



— Martha Beck



“I said being creative is the opposite of anxiety, but you can’t get to creativity if you don’t start with acceptance and compassion and simple kindness toward the self, toward the parts of the self that are doing the things you can’t stand.”



— Martha Beck



“When you realize that nature is available to you as a companion, if you just tell the truth, it really is worth giving everything else up.”



— Martha Beck



“I remembered Emerson’s statement that ‘beauty is its own excuse for being,’ and I thought joy is its own excuse for being — that is the one thing I can experience that makes it worth sticking around for the suffering this life entails. So I shifted my entire life toward a sort of very simple test. Does it bring me joy or does it not? And joy became the track I was following.”



— Martha Beck



“The essential self yearns. The social self wants.”



— Martha Beck



PEOPLE MENTIONED




Oprah Winfrey



Boyd Varty



Bronwyn Varty-Laburn



Dave Varty



Shan Varty



Renias Mhlongo



Sherlock Holmes



Arthur C. Clarke



Ralph Waldo Emerson



Eddie Izzard



Alex Van Den Heever



Brigham Young



Hugh Nibley



A.J. Jacobs



Julie Schoenberg Jacobs



Dante Alighieri



Julius Caesar



William Shakespeare



Elizabeth Gilbert



Phyllis Nibley



Andrés Segovia



Molly Ferriss



Steven C. Hayes



Stephen Mitchell



Byron Katie



Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Jill Bolte Taylor



Leonardo da Vinci



Neil Gaiman



Iain McGilchrist



Richard Schwartz



Jay Earley



Tara Brach



Lewis Hyde

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