# Bob Goff: What It Feels Like to Be You Right Now Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-school-7543113/bob-goff-what-it-feels-like-to-be-you-right-now Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-school-7543113/bob-goff-what-it-feels-like-to-be-you-right-now.md Podcast: [Human School](https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-school-7543113) Published: 2026-04-22T21:53:04+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/human-school/episodes/Bob-Goff-What-It-Feels-Like-to-Be-You-Right-Now-e3ia6cq Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/10b384b70/podcast/play/118871898/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-22%2F422626730-44100-2-f2bf77d4ba975.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/human-school-7543113/episodes/bob-goff-what-it-feels-like-to-be-you-right-now Duration seconds: 6063 ## Resource Stuck in the same emotional patterns? Onsite's Living Centered Program is a five-day intensive that helps you slow down, go deeper, and do the inner work that changes things. Learn more at experienceonsite.com What if the most meaningful thing you ever did wasn't whatmade you famous, but who you showed up for when nobody was watching? What if the key to getting unstuck isn't adding more to yourlife, but having the courage to quit something on a Thursday? Bob Goff — NYT bestselling author, founder of Love Does, andhonorary consul to Uganda — joins Miles Adcox for one of the most honest conversations in Human School history. These two have traveled conflict zones together, worked with San Quentin, and called each other in the gutted middle-of-the-night moments real friendships are made of. Bob opens up about walking away from law, stepping back fromspeaking, and handing over the nonprofit, he literally wrote the book on. He shares the four lies he tells himself daily and why naming them changed everything. He tells the story of Kabi — a Ugandan witch doctor convicted of child sacrifice — whom Bob prosecuted, befriended on death row, and watched transform an entire prison. They go deep on finding your "eight," the epidemic of loneliness, and why so many of us are surrounded by acquaintances but starving for real friendship. In this conversation, you'll learn: How to Use Context to Replace Judgment Before It Costs You a Relationship How to Know the Difference Between Self-Aware andSelf-Absorbed How to Find Your Eight and Stop Mistaking Acquaintances for Friends How to Quit Something Every Thursday and Why It's the Most Freeing Practice How to Stop Freeze-Framing People in Their Worst Moment How to Replace "How Are You" with a Question ThatOpens a Door H… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/human-school-7543113/episodes/bob-goff-what-it-feels-like-to-be-you-right-now/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/human-school-7543113/bob-goff-what-it-feels-like-to-be-you-right-now.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.