Life And Life Only Antony Rotunno

We continue our sprawling but hopefully enlightening trawl through John Cleese and Robin Skynner’s very readable, entertaining and insightful book ‘Life & How To Survive It’, which is presented as an ongoing dialogue between the doctor and the intelligent layman. One of the many strengths of the book is how it takes concepts and ideas and shows how they can be adapted to various contexts.
Among the topics and sub-topics touched upon in this episode are politics, society and its many forms, the continuing quest for the keys to happiness and mental clarity, the differences between British, American and Japanese culture, myths & reality, and the relationship between religion and mental health.
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 3 will be on its merry way soon
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https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com
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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
 
Waldorf Salad (Fawlty Towers episode) clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoUH43nI4w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIVGX-IkVy8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_uDB-0iBR8
 
The Secret Life of Brian documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdU_6jUQI9s
 
Chris Ryan interview on ‘Civilised To Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdThkFaQ4fQ
 
Review of Matt Taibbi’s ‘Hate Inc.’ (recommended book about the current political climate)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077699020965190

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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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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31jauLZovc

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
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6jj2I_Kn-s

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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvF5ARwXm-M

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
https://lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com/e/episode-19-life-coaching-creativity-communal-experience-mental-health/
 
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

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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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFO6OtnmEDo