“With an entertaining and irreverent tone, Rainn Wilson and The Geography of Bliss uncovers how the universal pillars of community, spirituality, family, and wealth all intersect to serve up varying degrees of happiness across our planet. “Rainn Wilson is the perfect guide to take audiences on a unique journey around the world uncovering the secret ingredients that make for a happy or unhappy population,” added Rod Aissa, EVP Unscripted Content, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. “Are you kidding me? This is the job of a lifetime: traveling around the world for Peacock, seeking to uncover the secret to happiness in these perilous times,” said Wilson. The series is exec produced by Wilson, Dave Sirulnick, Jen Isaacson, Jon Kamen, Evan Rosenfeld, Casey Scharf, and showrunner Melissa Wood with co-executive producer Eric Weiner. They're handholds on the path to finding the great mystery.Best known as Dwight Schrute on the NBC comedy, recently created, hosted and exec produced docuseries An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change for YouTube and Soul Pancake. And all of these things that are ineffable and transcendent are footprints. How did Andy Roddick get roped into this. I also know that there is art and there is music. The father of Jan's baby, Astrid Levinson, is none other than IRL Office fan and professional tennis player, Andy Roddick. The first step in knowing that there is a creative force in the universe is I know that there is love. There's some kind of energy." And I was with them on that, but that wasn't enough for me. But I believe that there's something more out there. Maybe, maybe there's some answer there.Īlmost to a person, my artist friends would say, "Well, I certainly don't believe in an old man on a cloud, you know, with an agenda scowling down at us. And well, then things just started to break down for me and it led me back on a spiritual quest where I was like, you know, maybe I lost something by getting rid of anything and everything to do with spirituality. I rejected anything and everything to do with religion and faith and spirituality when I was in my twenties. Maybe that's why I played Dwight so effectively, apparently." "And it's so funny because I've always identified as being a dork and a misfit and an outsider. "It's so not cool to be religious," Wilson says. I would ask my friends, 'Hey, do you believe in God?' " Open in 2003, went on the Late Show with David. "The very first question that I pondered as I was on this journey was, is there a God?. SeptemEverything was normal and nothing was weird when a spiky-haired Andy Roddick, after beating Juan Carlos Ferrero to win the U.S. Then he says, in his 20s, when he was struggling to make it as an actor in New York and suffering from acute anxiety, depression and addiction - he began looking for answers. Later, he began rejecting "everything to do with religion and faith and spirituality." In an interview for Morning Edition, Wilson tells NPR's Rachel Martin about a spiritual odyssey that began as a child, growing up in the Baha'i faith of his family. "Why the hell would the guy who played Dwight on The Office be writing a book about spirituality?"Įmmy-nominated actor Rainn Wilson says he knows that's the question people ask when hearing about his new book Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution.
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