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In Conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté

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What Does David Foster Wallace Say About Suffering?

There are too many people out there with a good in careers who have suffered tremendously and many of them in the entertainment world. I don't think he ever was able to fully metabolize his suffering until all you could do was to escape from it. That trauma shows up even in their successes that's part of the toxicity of our culture is something reward people with desperate coping mechanisms. You know these figures who are at the very top of their profession as you're adulated by millions, they were stolen from an actually biased manager. Elvis accrued riches but much of this charisma came from his suffering also his incredible talent Marilyn Monroe same thingLots of examples of this Aretha Franklin is another one you know

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