{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What is a Good Life?","title":"What is a Good Life? #42 - Embracing The Mess Of Life with Pranay Sanklecha","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4294,"description":"On the 42nd episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to welcome Pranay Sanklecha as our guest. Pranay is a philosopher, the founder of The Philosophy Practice, and a former philosophy professor at The University of Graz.\nIn this episode, Pranay looks to explore my own perspectives as well as sharing his own. We discuss the motives I had for starting this project, our realisations of the pitfalls of striving for particular states or experiences, and that real change may appear slow in the moment but can be considerable when viewed over time.\nHe also breaks down bigger concepts or questions into more relatable and applicable chunks, like a good life into a good day, and notions of oneness and loving everyone to focussing on truly loving your partner in the more trying moments of life.\nMuch of what Pranay is pointing to in this conversation is that if love, beauty, or God, are to be found anywhere, or if there is a good life to be experienced, it is right here in the mess of daily life, and not from escaping it.\nThis episode will give you plenty to consider in terms of where, and how, you are looking to experience a good life!\nSubscribe for weekly episodes, every Tuesday, and check out my YouTube channel (link below) for clips and shorts.\nContact me at mark@whatisagood.life to book a free 30 minute consultation for one-on-one coaching programs or to hear about corporate workshops I am offering around this question.\nRunning Order:\n02:34 Mixing the profound questions and the necessities\n05:14 Why did I start this What is a Good Life? Project\n12:16 Seeking a feeling rather than an outcome\n15:16 Not taking ourselves seriously but being committed\n20:39 Making peace with our commitments\n25:54 Dissolving a gap between daily life and enlightenment\n31:06 Mystical experiences and chasing states\n38:14 Just caring about my present day\n41:07 Feeling at home in your life\n45:36 Attachment and aversion and freedom\n50:10 What if everything was God?\n59:43 The...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bmT8FMFAsdpL8YpCcl1-OrgjJf3IhVZ_KJftDu8Wgy8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM3NDg2LzE2NzI4/MzUxMDgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}