Owen Fitzpatrick is a social psychologist, keynote speaker, and author of Inner Propaganda, a USA Today bestseller. Qualified as a hypnotherapist at seventeen, he has spent his life studying how beliefs are formed, working as a therapist and executive coach and traveling to North Korea, Afghanistan, and Rwanda to understand propaganda from the inside. He also hosts the Inner Propaganda podcast.
Owen Fitzpatrick was fourteen years old when a single question in his own suicide note stopped him from ending his life, and he has spent every year since trying to understand why one sentence could change a belief that felt absolutely true. In this conversation, we explore why the brain works like a news channel with an editorial agenda, how feelings decide what gets to feel true, the rules for knowing when to trust your gut and when it is tricking you, why the inner critic is better understood as an inner dictator you can talk back to, the anti fragile identity story that turns every failure into training, and why believing what is useful can matter more than being right. It is a conversation about becoming less certain so you can believe in yourself more.
How to Connect with Owen Fitzpatrick:
Website: https://owenfitzpatrick.com
Inner Propaganda (Book): https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Propaganda-Leading-Through-Turbulent/dp/1646872444
Book Bonuses: https://innerpropaganda.com
Inner Propaganda Podcast (Apple): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inner-propaganda-with-owen-fitzpatrick/id1441538919
Inner Propaganda Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/2vqTSmjM67LblWgXoDqwU0
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@owenjf23
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/owenf23
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenfitzp
Timestamps:
00:00 The Inner Voice As Propaganda
02:52 The Last Suicide Note
10:59 Can Inner Propaganda Work In Your Favor?
16:09 What Are We Blind To?
22:44 Your Brain Is A News Channel
27:28 Feeling Over Thinking
31:58 When To Trust Your Gut
37:30 Making Vs. Being: Two Kinds Of Happiness
45:22 Talking Back To The Inner Dictator
51:06 The Power Of Hypnosis
54:51 Storytelling And The Anti-Fragile Identity
1:00:20 Inner Propaganda As Identity
1:04:10 Spirituality: Useful Beats True
1:17:46 Cognitive Humility
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