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Chapter 1: Why is self-awareness important in finding inner peace?
I was saying to you before we got started, I really have noticed in myself as I've spent more time creating content and talking about challenges in life, I've started to gravitate toward the people that I listen to or the sorts of topics that I use to consume when I very, very first started.
And these are people like yourself, Oliver Berkman, Alain de Botton from the School of Life, people that really see the human condition with all of its challenges, all of its shortcomings, all of its foibles and the sort of very unashamed, unabashed self-reflection of, look, we're irrational, we're shaven chimps on a rock. We didn't ask to be here. We don't know how to be here.
We're living in an environment that's hopelessly mismatched with the genetics and the biological predisposition that we were given. We've got technology that's moving way quicker than even our brains can keep up, let alone our evolution. it's tough and it's okay. And maybe this comforting sentence will help. Like that's kind of the center of where I'm at at the moment.
And I think you slot very nicely into that.
Yeah. Thank you. I mean, you broke it down really beautifully and it's like, hopefully this sentence builds a little bit of self-awareness, right? Because we're highly imperfect and we're bound to make mistakes.
But the reality is that in the process of accepting how imperfect you are, it's almost like you take your power back and you're like, okay, well, I know what I'm good at and I know what I'm not good at. So let me try to build some new, you know, some new skills along the way.
Yeah, I think there's a few different ways that you can do it. Maybe people that are more
disposed towards positive affect or extroversion or like high energy perhaps they would default to kind of laughing it off you know they make a joke out of it it's not so big of a deal isn't it silly like look at the way that my brain works look at the um and then there's different horses for courses i think if you've got the level of self-reflection of someone like oliver berkman laughing at the absurdity of your own thoughts is probably a little bit harder to do so you know he i
works through it kind of more methodically. He takes it sort of step by step. He understands, okay, well, this is because of this and this is because of this and this because of this. And then with this very large view, we actually get some perspective and we step back from being caught up in the torrent of our own thoughts.
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Chapter 2: How do our thoughts contribute to our suffering?
It felt better in my body, and my mind was just connecting to all these different ideas. But it felt like I was almost taking a peek at a new world and opening a window. But when I started meditating, it was like, dude, I cracked that window open and just put my legs right through and I was walking in a whole new world. And even days later, you know, I was like, everything is shinier and brighter.
Like I literally remember, you know, after... I think on like day seven, day eight of the first course, and it still continues on now, I remember looking at a tree and being like, holy shit, I can see more branches and more leaves than I could before. Like my mind wasn't even able to cognize at that level because it was so busy.
And I think it was a shock over time how our senses and literally all of our abilities are dulled by the tension that we unconsciously carry. Yeah.
You're rate limited by how much you're distracted, 100%. And yeah, you're right. The brain can't do parallel processing. I'm sorry, even for the people that think they're amazing. Multitasking isn't a thing. You can just task switch really quickly. And yeah, you're right. You know, you think about, you'll remember this when you're reading and you're unmindfully reading.
And this is such a funny one. You go through a page and you go, I know that I looked at each individual word and I probably kind of somehow vocalized them in my mind. And if you held a gun to my head and asked me to tell you anything that just happened on the page, I'm like, I have no... Like, how the fuck did I do this?
I understand how I can watch a TV show and be distracted, but how did I say the words inside of my own mind? I know. And not taking any... I had to say it myself. And yeah, the... The interesting thing you said about being around friends, this is another thing I've realized.
The challenges of training the mind, whether it's through meditation or through CBT or through psychotherapy or through whatever, being around friends that eat healthily and regularly go for walks, will probably result in you eating healthily and going for walks. Or at least you're not going to be smoking as much. There's sort of social influence in that way. They get up on time.
They don't go out and party. They don't cheat on their partners. All of these things, many habits that people want to develop, can be things that you imbibe, you absorb from being around people that also do those things. And being around people that are sort of
thoughtful and mindful and peaceful and gentle and inquisitive and curious and loving caring fuck like yes give me more of that but ultimately you being able to access that level of presence is only a you thing so yeah i do get the sense that kind of the final frontier for anyone that wants to do the you know sigma male personal growth lone ranger bullshit
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