Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").
Very Bad Wizards
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I'm the Centre of the World, You Know, It's Not an Evil Thing That We're Doing
"It's trivially easy to start. It's the automatic way that i experience the boring, frustrating, crowded parts of adult life when i'm operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that i am the centre of the world," he says. "If you learn how to pay attention, at least you'll know there are other options and how to orient your perspective." 'You can choose to look differently at this fat, dead eyed, over made up lady who just screamed at her kid in the check outline,' writes Mr O'Neill. ''I think it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred
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