#22 Kirk Strosahl
ACT:Root to Fruit
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The Beauty of Human Cognition
The problem is when those rewards become highly abstract. And they play into a cultural stereotype that is practically unattainable. Like if you just play the game of life by the rules, you'll end up happy. No one ends up happy. So as these rules start to become second and third order,. It becomes harder and harder to specify what that consequence actually is - but the rule remains intact. People will do these things for decades. I've worked with clients who basically are going to die until their abusive father dies. They can punish him. Yeah. Until the day he dies. Right. When you get people to articulate those things out loud, they almost start laughing. You think what
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