#480: Dax Shepard on the Craft of Podcasting, Favorite Books, and Dancing With Your Demons

So I'm driving on the road, and I'm going to see a billboard ... What would I most want to see? ... Be as kind and forgiving to yourself as you are to the people you love.

I've yet to meet the person who's not wrestling with some shittiness ... It's a unifying trait of us humans. We've got some shit we're all dealing with.

I had told myself, as I think a lot of people do, 'If I got some money, I'd be happy. If I got this girl, I'd be happy. If I got this job, I'd be happy.' And I was lucky enough to get the all those things, and I was very unhappy. So, I really had to ask why, and I had to actually figure out how to be happy because it wasn't those things.

I do believe that [with] all these people we disagree with... I do believe [if] we were stuck somewhere with them and talked to them for two hours, the humanity takes over. We're so much more similar than we are different.

I've just never felt worse after an hour of exercise than I felt before.

One of the reasons I relapsed is I fucking love control. I love to know what mood I will be in. I love to regulate my emotions and my feelings. And that's one thing drugs do—you know how you will feel in 30 minutes.

I also grew up quite broke for a period of time. My family was very obsessed with climbing the financial ladder, so I'm obsessed with money, and I have great fear and financial insecurity—irrational, completely irrational. I've had numbers throughout my whole life—'If I had this amount of number, I'd feel safe. If I had this amount of money, I'd feel safe.' And then I never felt safe.