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#14 - How to Be Superman, with Michael Ashcroft

Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren

CHAPTER

The Uncomfortable Feeling of Being Alone

I'm going to talk about when you're left alone with yourself and looking to do that as a kind of a sense of discomfort. And that discomfort with being alone with ourselves in the world drives us into action. We don't want to be involved. But what we find is like, well, you actually are in the world. You're like, okay, attention, this is why I'm just moving. It's actually okay. Almost like the fear of death that this part of your brain has if it's not being engaged. Because if you see the world through that part ofyour brain and then it goes away, then it dies.

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