Alcoholics Anonymous, every mention
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every year anyone Shane Parrish 18Jeff Annello 2Marshall Goldsmith 1Kaz Nejatian 1Jack Kornfield 1Dr. Gio Valiante 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Alcoholics Anonymous comes up
Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 44:32 Kaz Nejatian There's a reason why, um, AA works so well.
Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
- ▶ 37:56 Shane Parrish Munger noted that nowadays, Alcoholics Anonymous routinely achieves about a 50% cure rate by causing several psychological tendencies to act together to counter addiction.
- ▶ 57:40 Shane Parrish Alcoholics Anonymous has a 50% cure rate.
Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 1): Discipline and Resilience
- ▶ 24:18 Dr. Gio Valiante It's like, you know, it's like what happens after Alcoholics Anonymous.
Dr. Anna Lembke: Between Pleasure and Pain
- ▶ 41:22 Shane Parrish Alcoholics Anonymous seems to be sort of one of the best methods of treatment available for a lot of people. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:05 Shane Parrish One is like, is there a ritual ritualistic aspect to Alcoholics Anonymous that, uh, also acts as a counterbalance to feeling isolated and alone and sort of. 6 times in the scene
Jack Kornfield: Finding Inner Calm
- ▶ 1:19:51 Jack Kornfield It's one of the things that makes something like AA so powerful, because when you're there, people get real with one another.
Marshall Goldsmith: The Essentials Of Leadership
- ▶ 1:22:25 Marshall Goldsmith It's like Alcoholics Anonymous for successful people.
Are we too busy to pay attention to life?
- ▶ 7:09 Jeff Annello Alcoholics Anonymous or something where the, the journalist starts by saying, I know I have a problem, um, this connectivity problem, and I'm gonna take 30 days to be, you know, clean and sober, basically.
- ▶ 32:40 Jeff Annello So you have to, you have to start by being honest with yourself, like how bad is my problem and how much, you know, again, it's very, it's very AA, but like how much do I, how much help do I need?