Mike and Dougie explore the Four Noble Truths, what suffering is and how to avoid it (clue: we can't) and consider what we can do to start questioning the stories we tell ourselves. Can we be more flexible about how we perceive ourselves?

Links

• Nice summation of the Four Noble Truths for novices
• Decades of Scientific Research that Started a Growth Mindset Revolution
• Hang on to Your Ego
• Perfectionism, worry, rumination, and distress: A meta-analysis of the evidence for the perfectionism cognition theory

Mike and Doug give you a taste of what's to come.