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We Made It Weird #80

You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

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Is There a Game We're Doing?

Every living form is designed to perceive itself as separate from the whole and to pursue survival energized by fear. So not liking those parts of ourselves, or judging that as bad, is like saying, reality shouldn't be this way. And then she says, even judging is an adverse reaction from our evolution, evolutionary past. It's just helpful for me to be like, all right, we're designed this way. It served a purpose. And my fear, which is my biggest sort of adversary, is just energizing my survival like that. I can't get that in my head enough. Like that fear, that feels so true. Sometimes it feels like the truest thing in the

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