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10: Why We Suffer and How to Manage It | Deep Dive

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Importance of Imagining the Future

Suffering is something our brains are actually really good at doing, right? Because they've developed this unique ability to contemplate the past and the present and the future. And that's when it gets us into trouble because when we can experience a source of potential pain before it even happens, then what ends up happening is we suffer in advance. For many of us, that like anticipated suffering is even worse than the actual suffering when it arrives.

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