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Danielle LaPorte is an author and poet living in Vancouver, Canada. I’ve been reading her books for years and this is her second time on the podcast--this time we spoke over zoom a few weeks ago about what she’s been learning lately. She has a way of articulating esoteric concepts in a way that goes down real easy for me, always has. This time we got into: how the only way out is through, self help exhaustion and how we don’t need to fix ourselves, how non-duality is a creative act, self forgiveness vs self discipline, pivoting or making a change at the last minute, having the courage to make what she calls the 11th hour change, the way I discovered her in 2013 and her memory of that, cycling and syncing with the moon, what she loves and hates when being interviewed, Krishnamurti on “discipline is a tool that numbs the mind,” on overworking, taking on too many projects, having to stay up late and eat crackers for dinner, her thoughts on time, what she calls tyrant time vs power time, and how she bends time, h