HeyJaredHow to Be an Adult
Do you find yourself wishing that your parents had taught you more about how to take care of yourself, your emotions and your health? This show offers practical guidance for outwardly successful but inwardly lost adults like you.
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How to Disappoint Others (Ep. 39) (opens the original)
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Because this podcast is called How to Be an Adult , and we take our promises seriously, you will never see us release an episode titled “How to Never Disappoint Others” or “How to Avoid Criticism.” In this episode, Luke Chao talks about how to disappoint others in a principled manner: Disappointment results from an internal mental mismatch between a person’s expectations and reality; it does not exist in the external world. Living an authentic life and pursuing creative or entrepreneurial goals
How to “Be Yourself” (Ep. 38) (opens the original)
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“Just be yourself!” We’ve all heard this platitude, but without specific instruction in what it means, the advice is rather useless. In this solo episode, Luke breaks down how to be yourself, and six enemies of your authentic self: Being authentic as an adult means embracing your individuality rather than compromising your values, thoughts, or feelings to meet external standards or please others. Individuals like Rosa Parks, Einstein, and Gandhi are viewed as iconic because they trusted their ow
How to “Take Care of Yourself” (Ep. 37) (opens the original)
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If you’ve ever heard the clichéd phrase, “take care of yourself,” you might have been flummoxed about how, especially if your needs were unmet in early life. Yet, as Luke will argue in this episode, taking care of yourself is a defining feature of adulthood: at last, you have a capable guardian. We shall use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as a framework: As adults, we serve as our own primary caregivers, responsible for meeting our own needs rather than relying on parents, partners, or employers. T
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