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back packs the solution that will save us all. The last thing is, i i bought sam harris's waking up at and there's just, there's
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meditations and things like that. But one of em had a theme that i liked, that i wanted to share.
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The other day. I shared that, ah, tim
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harris, that tim paris thing. And i had a couple of people that i know listen to the podcast, text me and say it was really helpful. So i thought i would shure another one that iave found helpful, which is, consider how much energy you put towards the project of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. And i thougt that's an interesting way to phrase that, because he's phrasing it like it is optional,
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it's a choice to try to minimize the amount of pain youex ence and try to seek wealth relationships, whatever it is, luxury goods, to try to be happy. Because
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mental model we normally get taught
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is that that's hard wired into us. That's pain
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and pleasure carrots stick. That's how you get people to do things, because they are
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wired to run from pain and seek pleasure. And sam
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harris's point, in
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his opinion, at least through the
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practice of meditation, you
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can make that more optional,
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and instead become ok not getting
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as much pleasure and
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periencing some pain. And he says, ultimately, because you will fail at what you pursue and you will have pain forced upon you, this is a a better strategy yor you. And i thought that was intresting, because it does put, like tony robins, this thing of pain pleasure in motivating people. I there's
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a lot of psychological
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models based on this not being optional. So, uch tho, it was interesting for sam to high light, ye, you can just try to get more comfortable with things not working out
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and and bounce back and be one o those people who says, you
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know, everything happens for reason, and really mean it.
