Why people recommend it
Soul Boom by Rainn Wilson is a book that advocates for a spiritual revolution to heal broken societal systems and address modern existential struggles through a spiritual lens. The book was featured prominently on The Diary Of A CEO on August 28, 2023, where Steven Bartlett recommended it to the audience as a wonderful read, using it to frame conversations with guest Rainn Wilson about death, spirituality, and personal unhappiness during his time on The Office. Additionally, the book was discussed on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von on May 2, 2023. During that episode, Theo Von introduced Wilson by mentioning the new book and noted that he had read the opening portion. Wilson spoke about how the book explores television metaphors like Kung Fu to explain spirituality, while also detailing his arguments regarding how societal and cultural systems are broken and in need of a spiritual awakening.
Who recommended it
- Steven Bartlett Recommended
Steven Bartlett — 3 mentions
Discussed
“Something you talk about in your new book Soul Boom. And something you've spoken about previously as well.”
Discussed
“That's something you talk about in your new book, Soul Boom, and something you've spoken about previously. It's something I've often pondered about.”
Recommended
“Means a lot, and everyone should go check out this book. It's it's wonderful.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker — 7
Discussed
“He's an actor, he's a creator, and you may know him from his iconic role on The Office. He has a new book out called 'Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution.'”
Discussed
“Anyways, I talk about it in my book because I feel like it's a metaphor for spirituality. In spirituality, we're walking around the crazy chaotic old West that’s aggressive and violent.”
Discussed
“That’s what I kind of derived from the beginning of your book. I think I read like 23 pages of it maybe.”
Discussed
“I know you talked some about in your book about how some of the things...”
Discussed
“I talk about this later on in the book. I talk a lot about how systems are broken.”
Discussed
“And I think because things aren't working out so well and we see big problems and people are turning, and this is what 'Soul Boom' is about.”
Discussed
“At the end of my book, I have a chapter called 'Seven Pillars for a Spiritual Revolution.'”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (14: passing, ad reads, own books)
Own book
“One of the things in my book that I bring up right away is, 'Why the hell is the guy who played Dwight talking about spirituality?' That might be a little weird.”
Own book
“That's fascinating because um for me, Soul Boom was such a labor of love. Uh it took me the entirety of COVID, three, three and a half years of working on it. It's a pretty Some people are like, "Oh, it's such a light easy read." And some people are like, "Oh, it's such a heavy read." And you know,”
Own book
“Also, that’s fascinating because for me, Soul Boom was such a labor of love.”
Own book
“But I really did; this was for me—if I get hit by a bus tomorrow, in case anyone ever—and that's probably like three dozen people—want to know what the guy who played Dwight thought about life, God, the soul, and meaning, it's all here in the book.”
Own book
“Now, it’s funny you mention this because, you know what this is like too; I did this book tour and lots of TV shows, podcasts, readings, and I'm still doing them.”
Own book
“I do want to come back to what you started with, which is I'm in this conversation right now of like we've built out a little Soul Boom Instagram page and it's, you know, it's only got like 30,000 followers right now, but we could build it out and I want to reach people with the ideas of this book”
Own book
“I want to reach people with the ideas of this book, people who aren’t necessarily going to buy a book but are interested in spiritual tools to make themselves better and improve the world.”
Own book
“But okay, great, let's put that aside; like I say in the book, have we jettisoned the spiritual baby with the religious bathwater?”
Own book
“one of the theses of my book is about this idea of a spiritual evolution.”
Own book
“So, that's why I wrote SoulBoom. Um, I really, uh,”
Own book
“Cuz Soul boom.”
Own book
“I want to read from the second greatest book next to the Bhagavad Gita and The Daily Stoic, 'Soul Boom.'”
Own book
“and really prompted me to write the book Soul Boom because I had one of these key kind of transcendent experiences”
Own book
“And this is one of the essential messages of SoulBoom is that we are spiritual beings.”