Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Check out Sam’s Waking Up Mediation App
• Our default mode, as humans, is to be lost in thought
  • We’re telling ourselves a story all day long, and we’re not always aware of it
• Almost all your negative emotions, are not rooted in the present moment
• “There is no prison, like the one between your ears” – Peter
• Some more great quotes
  • “We suffer more in imagination than in reality” – Seneca
  • “For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so” – Shakespeare in Hamlet
  • “Distraction is the only thing that consoles us from miseries yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries” – Pascal
• Evolution doesn’t care about your well-being
  • As long as you reproduce, your well-being doesn’t matter to evolution
• Some good tactics for dealing with anger
  • When anger arises, notice it, and aim to reduce the amount of time you are in fact, angry
    • The difference between being angry for 10 minutes, 10 seconds, and 1 second….is enormous!
  • Frame negative situations, where you are prone to anger, in a different way
    • Stuck in traffic? Ask yourself – “How can I more so appreciate this as a gift?”
      • Maybe the traffic will allow you to catch up on some podcasts
    • Bad airline service? – Realize that most job customer service jobs are very difficult
      • Have empathy – Behind every interaction, there’s someone very human
    • Someone cut you off on the road? – Realize that maybe they had a reason for it. Maybe they’re rushing their child to the ER.
      • Every experience you have, is through your own lens – Zoom out, it’s not all about you
• Everyone is suffering
  • Every goes through shit – you don’t know anyone’s past or what they’re currently going through
• Realize that if you are in a well off position in life, there is a tremendous amount of luck that got you there
  
  

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