Building A New Mindset On Success - Dr Rangan Chatterjee - #271

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Dr Rangan Chatterjee, British physician, British physician. God, that's hard to say. Author, television presenter and podcaster. How can we create the life where we don't just look fulfilled, but genuinely are fulfilled? What does it mean to be truly successful? What use is fame if you don't like the person you see in the mirror? This conversation went so deep, so fast. I absolutely adored it. I love having other podcasters on the show because you both end up pushing each other into new places, and we definitely did that today. So expect to learn Rangan's most important daily routines, his biggest insights about personal development over the last year, what he thinks about Cosmopolitan's new campaign, how Tiger Woods' story is a warning to us all, and much more. I genuinely think that this will be a conversation I come back to many, many times. Rangan is an absolute pro, and it comes across in this episode. If you enjoy it, or if you are new here, or if you just wanna be nice to me, go and hit the subscribe button on whatever podcast app you are listening on. It helps to support the show, and it ensures that you don't miss any future episodes when they go live. But for now, it's time for the wise and very wonderful Dr Rangan Chatterjee.
Dr Rangan Chatterjee, welcome to the show.

**Rangan Chatterjee** (1:39)
Chris, thanks very much for having me.

**Chris Williamson** (1:41)
Pleasure to have you on, man. 2021, finding out of the absolute nightmare that was 2020 Are you a New Year's resolutions guy? You got any resolutions for this year?

**Rangan Chatterjee** (1:51)
I used to be a resolution guy, back in the olden days. This year, no, I haven't made any really.
I find resolutions have helped me in the short term in the past but haven't really helped me in the long term. I guess that's also what I've seen with many of my patients. I'm not against resolutions, right? I get that everyone has got a different approach, different things work for different people for sure. But for me, I think about values. What are the values I want to live my life by this year? What actions do I need to take regularly that is going to help me act in accordance with those values? I guess, if I'm honest, 2020 has probably shifted things for me in the sense that, like for many people, there was a lot of reflection in 2020
Life came to a stop and certainly the way many of us used to live our lives. And I remember in August, I actually went off social media for 18 days. And it was just incredible, mate, because in those 18 days, once I'd got out of the habit of picking up my phone and looking for the Instagram app, which I'd actually deleted from my phone, I really found a sense of calm and sereneness. And I really started to tap into what I thought, not what the world around me thought, but what do I really think about these issues? And it was like shutting out the noise from the world and allowing me to hear my inner voice. And I thought long and hard about my values and what are the values by which I aspire to live my life. And I thought about things like integrity, compassion, creativity, fairness. I thought of family, big value for me is my family. And then I was thinking about, well, are your actions consistent with these values? Are they real values or are they aspirational values? And so I've been doing a lot of that kind of inner thinking over the past few months. And I think that's one of the reasons why I've not set any resolutions this year is because I feel pretty content these days, mate, if I'm honest. I've been working hard on myself, my health, my well-being, my thoughts, my mindset for a good five, ten years now. And I feel that, yeah, there's a few things I want to focus on this year for sure. I've got a chart in my kitchen at the moment, as my kids do, and I've got three daily practices on there that I'm committing to. And I've thought long and hard, because in the past I would have put eight or nine down. And I was going to do one, but I know I'm quite confident with these three. So, I've realized that if I do these three things every day, I win the day. I'm doing well, because there's a temptation, I think, these days to go online and say, oh, I could do that. I could practice martial arts. I could do breath work. I could do meditation. I could do yoga. I could do strength training. I've been that person before. So, you know, that's a long-winded answer to your question. Have I set any resolutions? No. Do I not agree with resolutions? No, I think they can work okay for some people. But for me, I'm at a place where actually, this year at least, I've made zero resolutions.