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061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft

You Are Not So Smart

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Meditation

In an experiment, people were given the ability to give themselves a painful electric shock. They hated it so much that they would rather do something really unpleasant than sit alone with their thoughts. When you're constantly avoiding your own mind in a sense or being alone with your own thoughts, that's a painful and difficult place to be. And one of the main reasons I started meditating was I just couldn't stand my own mind.

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