Episode 791 Scott Adams Excerpt: I Will Rewire Your Brains to Relieve Anxiety
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Content: Rewiring your brain to relieve anxiety
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"You have a great life," is not only a friendly send-off but an astute observation, too.
The reason I listen everyday... I believe @ScottAdams may be the person i am aware of with the best intentions, more than any human I have experienced thank you Scott
I have basically been living by that philosophy for the past 50 years, but a reminder from time to time is valuable. Thank you for that. When I'm doing it right, angry words and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune pass right through me like beams of light through a hazy cloud of thin smoke.
He's describing what in meditation is the "Feeling of having no head."
Such as described in the Sam Harris Making Sense podcast titled "The Illusory Self"
@@JimStone2 you listen to Sam Harris 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had an ego death when my father died. So much of what we take seriously in life is unimportant - all things die including us. It put things into perspective for me in a way that only a death of someone that close to me could.
ksdreger How true, how true! My own mortality came into clear focus when my father died.
I've done this for fun for a long time. My big obstacle is to take it from leisure to applicability in more productive systems. I'm not sure if you'll see this, Scott, but if anyone out there can help with that transition it would certainly help others out as well.
Thinking that reality is fake only means that you aren't playing the game. If you want to start cheating, that's one thing, but you don't have to live in a fake reality in order to let pain or fear wash past you.
I didn’t quite get there but close. Please do more of these. Thank you.
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel, ah how does it feel?
Robert Zimmerman came up with this about 60 years ago and even put it to music.
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Like A Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan, Tom Petty
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People call say 'beware doll, you're bound to fall'
You thought they were all kidding you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh you've gone to the finest schools, alright Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street
And now you're gonna have to get used to it
You say you never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
A complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ah you never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discovered that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To have on your own, with no direction home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh princess on a steeple and all the pretty people
They're all drinking, thinking that they've got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you better take your diamond ring, you better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel, ah how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
I have been suffering anxiety and guilt over putting my dog to sleep because she was sick. I reframed my thoughts on it. So instead of thinking, “I killed my dog I hate myself, i reframed it to “She was suffering now she’s not.”
I keep repeating it every time the guilt pops into my head and it’s helping so much. Thank you Scott.
Check this teaching by Eckhart Tolle on letting go the thougts of pet animals. ruclips.net/video/cL6Y3qXZmj0/видео.html
Yeah, well, I have waited too long a couple of times and that is probably worse than too soon. The suffering was incredibly bad. Give yourself a break, Chad, you did the right thing.
This was a good explanation and as someone who has experienced ego death recently and been aware of this conversation from Joe Rogan and Scott Adams, I thought I could understand what they meant but you really don't until you experience it yourself.
Words can not describe feelings not that there is something amazing but it's not possible .
But it is fleeting and you slowly gain your ego back and after a few days you are back to normal level.
But the experience stays with you.
The quantum entanglement he is talking about and Schrodinger's cat are not fully fledged cause it feels like we are missing an important variable so we are still working on that it will not be the whole answer just like newtons physics was not the full answer , then Einstein came along and made the whole thing make sense.
Newton was talking about forces like strings wrapped around planets which doesn't make sense conceptually but it worked . Then Einstein came along with the space time continuum which is like a plastic sheet and suddenly it clicked.
Same will happen with quantum mechanics.
We just have scratched the surface.
And also I believe our brains can understand and conceptualize anything.
So that will never be a problem.
We always underestimate and overestimate the human brain.
It's very simple but capable of incredible complexity.
I've been using a similar technique for a few years to enable me to meditate anywhere, anytime: I just imagine the world around me is a virtual reality simulation, and if I was absolutely certain that were the case, what sort of attention would I be paying to the amazing amount of detail put into it all, rather than the mundane and repetitive "story" in my head.
I believe this focus on the senses helps the mind shift from the "paranoid problem-anticipating radar" mode the ego tends to operate in, and engages an alternate experiential mode we typically run on auto-pilot, that of the actual input coming in from our senses.
As Scott has said in the past, our conscious mind tends to ignore that which isn't new/novel, therefore we don't engage the neurological "system" of sense perception as the main mode of the focus of our consciousness very often (since our environment rarely changes). Therefore, the mind/thoughts/ego have the opportunity to take the stage, because the mind is a master at constantly churning up new and "important" things to be obsessed over.
Anyone who benefitted from this exercise would probably respond well to meditation. My take after 6+ years of meditation is that the constant focused effort to bring your conscious attention out of the ego's stream-of-thoughts, and into your immediate environment by way of conscious and sustained attention on your physical senses (focusing on the sensation of your breath, for example), results in the same distancing of identification with the ego that Scott is describing here.
Or in Scott's analogy, before meditation you actually think you are the potato, but after enough regular meditation you eventually have the direct experience that there is a "you" that carries the potato. And just like Scott says, the potato isn't all that special.
Eventually you realize there are a lot of potatoes, and you can carry a different one if you'd like. Or a few of them :)
The biggest obstacle to meditation, from my experience, is that the potato really, really likes being in charge, and will fight any efforts to remove it from its supreme reign. Even just the realization that you are not the potato is very liberating. Much of the potato's power derives form you not being aware that you aren't the potato (insert Wizard of Oz reference here).
Shifting into observer mode does something very similar
Buddhism teaches this I believe
I'm guessing Adams doesn't read comments. I went into this thinking it was bullshit. I end up with freaking tears, completely relaxed, and somehow I'm hyper aware. Crap moves or little sounds happen and I catch every single one of them. There's a semi moving down the road somewhere in the distance right now. I'm noticing stuff most people never even know happens. Flakes of window film moving in the flow of the A/C sparkling like sunlight on the water. Things look sharper and with more vibrant color. What the hell did you do Adams?
Just heard him refer us here. I’m skeptical.
From another era: Pre-Biden; Pre-Covid.
This video is over one year old. Who reads emails a year old?
@@dianeleone1634 Well, for one he's directing people here from Twitter presently. Two, the notifications come in real-time to his notification bar when people reply. And lastly, you don't get a year old email when people comment on RUclips videos.
I like this because you can step away emotionally and look at everything more objectively. You explain it in a relaxing way. Ive had people explain it in other ways that made it weird. This was perfect! Thanks.
I really had a lot of fun with this exercise. Loved this part of the morning Periscope. I felt happy all morning...
Hello fellow potatoes
This message is incredibly useful. It is been a public service to a shared it.🙏🏻
The time-honored practice of surrendering the ego is laid out in a collection of works divided into two volumes: The Old Testament is the first one, and The New Testament follows as the second. You can find copies of both at your local library.
My favourite comment on the thread. Thank you.
This didn’t do anything for me. I don’t think I have any anxiety. Going to listen to it again over the next few days to see if any thing changes. But will be passing it along as there are many who could use this. 👍🏻
Stop judging
“There's a force in the universe making things happen, and all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.Danny”
The description of matter not existing until "witnessed" by "something that can see and detect" is a little off. It's a common misconception because of the scientific use of the term "measure".
The particle is "measured" when isolated by an instrument, yes, but also when it interacts with anything that requires a specific outcome. It's not about being observed by a conscious entity, just encountering a scenario where the wave function _has_ to collapse.
My breath became slower and deeper.
I felt extreme, maybe complete, relaxation.
I prefer to close my eyes. And picture it that way.
I am starting to feel a slight elation.
A lightening.
As if matter is leaving my body - but I am still in tact.
Reality is according to the filter. What power!
I guess I knew that. But this makes it more real.
Yesterday I read Viktor Frankel's "Man's Search for Meaning".
Preparing for the PragerU book review this Tuesday.
But it was also the perfect Pre-suasion for your gift today.
THANKS!
Aliza Basmenachem I felt the same way. Not sure how to think something is virtual reality. Just repeat to your self?
Thank you Scott much appreciation ❤️
The shift in consciousness which you are describing, Scott, through an exercise in imagining a “virtual reality” is the essence of what is taught in “A Course in Miracles - Original Edition”; this is NOT the first version that was published (blue book) that is a garbled, distorted, heavily edited version that Marianne Williamson uses. The Original was found during copyright litigation some years ago. It was published about 8 years ago. Thanks so much for describing this concept in an easy (relatively) way to experience and thus to understand the idea that our “reality” is malleable and therefore subject to change, i.e. “miracles”.
I was impress by Marianne Williamson's presentation of a Course in Miracles. How did you determine she wasn't working from the original script?
If I may humbly suggest: If you are going to see the environment as a simulation, then your thoughts and anxiety may also be part of the simulation.
Isn't that the point? Your anxiety isn't real.
Keep practicing and see if it leads somewhere
Good job Scott, I loved this!
(Love Conway's comment about potatoes.) The thing I got out of this is that we've spent the past 50+ years building anxiety into our children by telling them how special they are. The truth is that we are no more (and no less) special (important) than anyone else.
Scott, I love it when you go here. I want to go deeper. Is there a chance of a part 2? I want to go further.
These are the same principles in Sam Harris's mindfulness meditation. These are not easy concepts for everyone to grasp but it is powerful to be able to get outside of your own immediate experience and recognize the subjectivity of it. Instead of being a prisoner inside your own body and a slave to external stimuli you can regain control over the subjective portion of your experience and overcome your emotions, your mood, your depressing thoughts, etc. It is an accessible skill with practice.
I think anyone that has seen the Matrix or other similar story and actually thought about it has probably already done this exercise in a way. I certainly have, so it had no effect on me. Then again, I'm not a high anxiety person. I could carry a Picasso down the road without a second thought. My conclusion is whether or not we are in a simulation, is completely irrelevant. I'm a Cypher. If we're in a simulation, I'm okay with that and have no desire to "escape". The next level might be a total hellhole, or completely incomprehensible, who knows? All I know is I'm not gonna escape either way (except perhaps through death), nor am I gonna play with fire and try to. That's the road to the mental hospital. And consequences for our actions are the same whether we are in a simulation or not. You don't eat, you die. You kill someone, you go to prison. You don't do your job, you get fired. None of which is pleasant, virtual or not.
This is just two movies one screen crossed with simulation theory.
I've tried this with people with anxiety and it is NOT good. The loss of control they experience is something else. Typically recoil in horror and try to block out the feeling that nothing matters.
Not being able to modulate these being in control and out of control feelings is what anxiety is, and sadly this approach comes off as a trigger more than a cure. Also, do NOT give these people hallucinagens, they are not going to help.
No. Anxiety is fear. It can stem from any number of causes.
@@ivermec-tin666 in the simplest term possible, yes anxiety is fear. That doesn't actually say much about the disorder of anxiety, let alone an approach to helping it. What I am talking about is the underlying structure that the disorder is built on. If you can give me an example of anxiety that doesn't spawn from a lack of control or a high level of control I'd like to hear it.
Having an anxiety disorder would be to overreact to this normal anxiety in a detrimental way.
@@Stanton_High That is because I reject the notion that all anxieties are of a kind. Disorders are simply maladaptations informed by experiences or beliefs. Each one is specific, particular, and unique to the individual. If they could be effectively categorized then they could be effectively treated; but treatment of such conditions is hardly reliable.
Control is only one lens. It will inform some understandings and some treatments; and render others unattainable. One could view the ego as the ultimate expression of the attachment to the illusion of control. But, it doesn't actually exist. It is a chimera, an invention, a device.
The great promise of hallucinogens has always been as an accelerant to some structured and assisted process of self discovery; whether shamanic or psycho therapeutic. This is their cultural and historic function. They are tools. Tools can be used properly or improperly. Some believe that they can be helpful. You, apparently do not. But you cannot know with any certainty that they are categorically "not going to help". Anxiety is not monolithic. All anxieties are not of a kind.
Stanton High Does this comment or any of the replies involve a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist?
@@ivermec-tin666 you misunderstood, I do not recommend giving people that struggle with Scott's visualization tool any form of hallucinagen. Of course there are different froms of anxiety but they are all still called anxiety for a reason.
Ah, this coulda been good. But I don't like Picasso. and I'm Irish so I love potatoes!
So the whole thing has made me anxious!
For me, belief in the afterlife helps reduce anxiety in a similar way, because I know no matter what happens I'll be saved as long as I was a good person and went to church and stuff. You can accomplish a lot more in life and risk a lot more embarrassment if you're confident that you have one, relatively straightforward goal of following your religion's teachings, and that everything else falls away in the end. Traditionally, Catholicism teaches us to be humble and avoid too many earthly pursuits, but I think if you rethink things and say that your goal is to be as big of a positive influence as possible, then you can motivate yourself to do great things while still feeling the sense of security and confidence that things will work out.
“There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.”- Nisargadatta Maharaj
Not bad but Douglas Harding's Headless Way is perhaps a world class option.
Ramana Maharishi is the simplest granddad of the last 1000 years, worth knowing.
I was tripping on LSD while listening to this. The way Scott describes the hallucinogenic experience is pretty spot on. It's very profound and kind of hard for me to explain in words, but I've always put it as it feels like you're experiencing yourself from outside of yourself. Not "out-of-body" but rather it's the sense that your ego, or self, of whatever, feels totally separate from your perception and it's more like you're observing it than experiencing it. When that happens the "walls of your mental prison" to use a Scott expression crumble down and I realize that my typical view of the world is entirely subjective and there's an alternative perception that you view things through. When you do, your whole world changes. I realize that a lot of the anxieties and other feelings I carry with me don't actually make a lot of sense, and really aren't important anyway. It's a very freeing experience.
the problem for me has always been that as soon as the drug wears off, the walls of the mental prison go right back up and I'm just back to my old self stuck in the same confines. The worst part about taking acid is that it wears off, as I've often said. But Scott's technique seems to be a way to apply that view more permanently by reminding myself that my reality is subjective and I have some control over what filter I apply. I'll definitely give this a try
Deep Meditation is an alternative method to achieve a Mystical Experience. ANYONE can do it for Free. But as Scott has said, “You can’t just WANT it, you have to be willing to Pay the Price.” In this case, the Price is about as much effort and time as it would take for a person with NO previous musical experience to learn to play the piano well. Somewhat daunting, but definitely doable, if you’re willing....
Since you already know what a Mystical Experience feels like, you’ll likely need even Less effort. The advantage will be you’ll be able to access it longer, explore in more detail, and not have to wait to acquire Psychedelics.
You gotta ride out the temporary rewire
Scott just changed the world.
Helpful exercise and you’re correct that psychedelics can be an amazing portal to free you from ego issues
Not a criticism, just an observation: There are two ways to contribute to making the world better. "Give a man a fish or Show a man how to fish"
Thank you Scott. Many of us can now fish. Still, as I read many responses, many choose to stay stuck. Too close minded to attempt any nuance of thought.
Well said
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I just woke up from a two year “living” coma thanks to this video…still trying to imagine myself as a potato, but still, at least I’m awake 😎🙋♀️
Changing your frame is a powerful tool. I haven't mastered it but I do try and use it often. For example. When I am doing a chore I would like to avoid, laundry, lawn, cleaning...., I imagine Steve Jobs. Weird I know but I ask myself, would this very wealthy and powerful CEO gladly mop this floor and experience one hour of life while doing it? It helps me switch from saying, I don't want to mop this floor to thinking, I am so fortunate to be able to mop this floor and experience another hour of life.
@@coniccinoc hmmm, great way to start, thank you for the tip 🙋♀️
kind of helpin me deal with my impulses, its usually a struggle caving to my impulses, but this is helping expose that layer for what it is and helping get back into control
I already used to think that i was piloting my body, but the reinforcement on the idea adds a bit more comfort to it.
Cool exercise, I'll probably have to revisit it again in the future for reinforcement
Great perspective, or should I say “release of the ego”? I am wondering what Scott Adams is saying has any relationship to stoicism...?
Why would someone viewing life as a simulation not conclude the simulation was created by God and he entered that simulation as a man named Jesus?
Yeah the whole 'universe as a simulation' thing is just creationism with a new label on it. The spin that scott puts on it is decidedly demonic though, suggesting that it isn't real at all simply because it was created. There's utility in stoicism, there's utility in detaching from things that are paralyzing you if its a life or death situation... but becoming an NPC in scott's world is not a good path.
Amen.
Why would they? Do you know the story of Jesus to be true? NO.... You simply believe it because it is the story they told you is true.... Silly question.... That does not mean that what you believe is not true. I'm just saying not everyone, myself included, believes in Jesus/Christianity.
All I was suggesting was if the world we live in is a simulation then anything is possible including Christianity being true. I am aware there are people who are not Christians. If you believe in a simulation universe you can’t refute it as the rules of the simulation. It very well could be the designers exact plan for a free will generator.
@@PowerWes Huge amounts of evidence point to the fact that Jesus lived.
Really cool. I felt something, I dont know what, but its different.
This feels familiar but useful to have it explained in these terms. Will focus more after today and tweak the simulation. God bless
This worked for me. I been worrying so much that ill fail or taxes will mess up and all the wrong things
"Be the potato"? I'm sorry Scott, I love you. Your videos are great. But now I can't get "be the potato head" out of my mind. Then I thought some more about it and I believe you're really hit on something. We've got Deadheads, Parrotheads, and some people say that Jordan Peterson fans are called Lobsterheads. I think you've found your fans' moniker Scott. We're Potatoheads!!
I want a mug . . . where do I get the mug?
Potatoheads - killing ego since 2020.
Was anyone else eating a potato as they listened? Coincidence or 'the simulation?'
Lobsters engaged in mortal combat. One wields a potatoe. One wields a Picasso. The prize is a Saratonin, Prozac pill. But is it "Blue" or "Red". Level up.
The potato analogy is particularly apt if you're a Devo fan. 😎
Thanks Scott!
Interesting. I have been lead to this exact same place/perspective by following the research of Don Hoffman on consciousness. His research shows how consciousness is the core of reality and evolution has given a view of reality that is not the truth but a filter, or virtual headset that we use to navigate or experience reality. It took many hours of study to get to that amazing place described in this video. Scott Adams is able to get us there in a few minutes. There is something truly transformative in this exercise. It is worth consideration and practice IMHO. Well done!
This mirrors a lesson from A Course In Miracles. Profound.
start at 6:50
gracias bro
signed, Spuds McTot
There is no spoon
Thank you.
doesn't the potato get mad when it is getting fried by others? How does one escape the chopping and frying feeling?
droidtest36 Thank- you for making me laugh out loud.
If we assume the potato is in a robot body, then it uses the robot body to fight off the chef, and anyone else that poses a genuine threat. Being content at its being a potato would just be abstaining from playing the game and declaring victory as it gets turned into a meal.
@@mumberthrax the problem is with the statement 'anyone else that poses a genuine threat' - every potato thinks its life is under threat for the slightest provocation and starts defending each time and gets into - "I am a special potato" mode and the whole potato facade melts down!
I object to Scott Adams' characterization of Brian Stelter in this cast. He is MORE than just a potato, dammit!
There is no spoon.
Great introduction to non dual meditation Scott. I'd love to see you featured in a conversation on Sam Harris's waking up app.
This is a great exercise, similar feelings to the concept of being ‘born again’ as a Christian. This is also a good exercise for people who are not anxiety ridden and choose to keep their worldview that already protects them against anxiety.
The fact that this came out just before the pandemic is kinda perfect.
People already call me a potato, so I must be a natural at this!
I actually did cry a little. Though, probably not for reasons I share with a lot of people. I cried because, I've absolutely thought of myself as a human in a robot body (I used a spacesuit metaphor, actually). I've treated this world as if my will could bend it. I've had moments where physical objects behave like game glitches. I've even written a novel about a world where things only exist so long as people focus on them. All without genuinely believing this is all just VR. I cried because I've felt so alone all this time. I tested it once, and I have abnormally low anxiety. I'm full of anger though. Largely because I do notice the glitches, and they trigger my C-PTSD from when I was a child parented by a neurotic mother, and the truth could be changed to anything she wanted it to be in the moment. So I held hard to what was objectively true. I care more for objects and fiction than people, because they feel more true. An object stays where you last put it. you can watch the same movie again and it doesn't change behind your back. What if that's no different from a static asset in a video game, like an art texture, that is less prone to glitches than bigger things?
I read about the first documented case of schizophrenia. The patient described an "air loom" for transmitting thoughts into his head. Because the industrial weaving loom was the most complicated technology he had at the time. So that was his framework for imagining the influencing machine. VR is what we have now. What will other generations imagine it as?
Understanding seems to come in threes. First you have a naive, childish view. Then a mature, technical view. Then an experienced, wise view that is often very similar to the first view. You believe everything your parents tell you as a child. You rebel as a teenager. You make your own decisions as an adult. The fool thinks nothing exist except for their own individual feelings and perceptions. The smart person knows objective reality exists apart from us. Maybe the free person begins to consider that all of this is real only to the extent that we perpetuate it by collectively perceiving it.
I cried because, I do think this is real. In the same sense that an MMO is real. The game itself exists, even if the world is pixels. But to the NPCs, it's the only thing that's real. They have to regard it as real, and are programmed not to notice the points that break the illusion. Are we NPCs? Or are we players in a game with a hitherto-undiscovered level of immersion: you forget you were ever the person who entered the game, and you fully become your role in the game for as long as your character lives. What are the themes of this game? What about it would make someone want to play it? What can we guess about the people we are outside the game, based on the types of games we create? The ones that are like our own, and the ones that are wildly the opposite? I cried because, I've been tired of this game for a very long time, and I would very much like to unplug and leave and wake up. And it's only my fear that I'm wrong and there's nothing beyond this (plus my care for the people who'd miss me, obviously), that keeps me here, sighing, feeding and bathing this spacesuit body, feeling like I've seen all of this I want to see.
If it makes you feel any better most of us were parented by neurotic mothers
The most normal people I've met had really good mothers but that is exceedingly rare
Having said that every bad experience has an upside and one of the secrets of happiness is realizing what that up side is because there is one
there always is one
Also meditation helps immensely
Blessings ❤️
Aye, the shortened version. Good on ya!
Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Wow, what a connection, I never would have connected that, Thanks.
Do this after 3 IPA’s and it’s a chill trip
God Bless Sir 🙏🙏🌠🌠💎💎🌠🌠🙏🙏
Thank you
I've already discovered the event you shared with me but didn't have words for it until now. Thank you.
This reminded me of 'nonjudgmental awareness' I was taught in music school. Self 1/Self 2.
Interesting
Reminded me of mindfulness and being present in the now
Hilarious in a good way....and a nice reminder of things I've learned the hard way over years.
About half an hour after watching this, I'm experiencing the same high-detail-awareness, facial numbness, phantom pressures, and other effects from when I've taken marijuana edibles. No bullshit.
What if I want to rewire my brain to RELIVE anxiety?
Watch CNN
Sort of easy to say if you have money. I often need to remind myself to trust God. Daily. The Bible teaches, "Be anxious for nothing." And further instructs His children not to worry. But I'm a flesh and blood human that needs and seeks God's comfort in this fallen world. I know I worry less when my bank account has something in it. I am aware that that makes this money a type of "god." But I do feel more secure. NOTHING is free in this world regarding people. Housing has cost. Finally, I see God working regularly in my life and it is quite comforting. The God of the Bible is real. Troll away thou foolish ones.
I respect that. Good for you.
I'm religious so no argument with you on that but regarding money (assuming you're in a free society like the US) is pretty easy to acquire if you follow the rules. 1) choose a career that society rewards with lots of money that is within your capability to acquire. 2) put in the work to acquire the required credentials/degree/certifications in that profession 3) work hard in your chosen field.
I chose engeering since society currently rewards engineers with high income. I worked hard (took me 5 years to finish degree) and then got a high paying job in high-tech. Later I decided to become an executive for even higher income, got an MBA (paid for by high-tech company) and then moved into the management track w/ another company for even more money. Follow the rules, work hard, and money comes naturally.
Or you could get a degree in art history or anthropology at an expensive university, build up lots of student debt and then complain that the world is unfair. Lots of options.
@@TrendyStone Or you can follow a similar path, get the house paid off and realize you don't want to do this shit anymore. Cash in your chips (the house you paid off) and live as a nomad with your big asset feeding you instead of you feeding it. Boondocking in some of the most beautiful places in the country completely for free. When you get too old to do that, your asset has grown and pays for assisted living. Lots of options as you say, but they all start out with a lot of hard work and diligence.
Wow. Talk about a mind shift!
If other people aren’t real then neither am I, but I know I exist as does everyone know they exist. So maybe it’s just matter that doesn’t exist but consciousness is actually real.
"I am not my body. I am not even my mind" - Sadhguru.
"I am not a body, I am free. I am still as God created me." - Jesus via A Course In Miracles
As I understand it, matter exists, but we don't know where and when until it is measured.
Someone described it like plucking a guitar string. The potential is there but no sound until plucked. The interaction brings it about.
Sounds similar to stoicism.
I haven't watched it yet but will watch later
Where are you on Vipassana meditation? Never been, nor have I ever ingested hallucinogens, but could Vipassana be described in this way?
Early on in the video I was hearing a kind of 'wooowooowooowooowooowooo' sound deep in the background, and I thought perhaps the whole video would be a sham while some kind of binaural rhythm went to work.
Turns out my roommate was just watching TV in the other room.
I got more anxiety from the potato because I was supposed to give it someone, but what if I couldn't find someone to give it too? And with the painting, I did not have anxiety because I knew that I would never be in such a situation. I think my anxiety is backwards next level inconvenient 🙃
Ha me too only my anxiety was what if the person says
Why are you bringing me a f ing potato lol
Meditation has almost cured my anxiety and depression
That and avoiding people whenever possible 🤣
@@laurabusse1832 Plot twist - My anxiety disappeared a few days after I watched this 😶
@@silroc8200 that's fantastic
I'm planning to listen to it again
Went to a party last night long story
I don't like parties
I eventually fled lol
Then I remembered I forgot to be the potato 🤣
@@laurabusse1832 that's what I thought at first. But for me it was the painting... I don't care about the painting. It's amazing how we all perceive things differently.
@@silroc8200 it truly is isn't it
Peace and blessings to you ❤️
Be careful about your optimism regarding social media and "good ideas bubble up" mechanism. There's no reason why good ideas should bubble up there, except if you define the ideas that bubble up there as good. Or unless you ignore all but those you consider good.
Omitting "hate speech filters", it's just natural selection and evolution: ideas bubble up because they are best suited to be promoted given the current state of their environment, meaning the social connections and state of the mind of countless users of the social media network.
It's topic for a long debate but I think I'll stop here. Maybe give it a thought.
Bad ideas can bubble up too. Social media is a sewer. Ever see anything good bubble out of a sewer?
The next level of Zen is accepting , while holding a potato, that there is no potato
This exercise is fine, Most people need to relax a ton and realize most 'experts' are actually hacks, and this works for most people, except I hope my Dr. doesn't think I'm a potato!
Doing mushrooms works better, but solid exercise. Totally changes your outlook.
True for me. Exercise has been a huge help where various Rx remedies did nothing good.
What kind of mushrooms?
What you’re saying is your ego is so massive you need drugs to help you not be so full of yourself 😂
@@zakeaton5632Have you met the general public?
Episode starts at 06:00
Since I'm not one of Scott's Pavlovian followers (I skip the sip), this did not work for me. I was certainly willing to give it a chance since I know the value of hypnosis and meditation, and did my best to do what he was saying, but I could not suppress the part of my brain that told me this was bullshit. It didn't help that he prefaced this with a completely wrong understanding of quantum physics. As he rambled on taking forever to get to his point, I saw where he was going with it and the spell was just broken.
I've suffered from various anxieties most of my life. If there was a quick fix, I would've found it by now. There's only one thing that works, and that is exposure therapy. All true phobias are irrational, and the only way you can override the irrational part of your brain is through rational analysis of your fears and then reinforcing that rational analysis through exposure so you can be rewarded with the fact that there was nothing to be afraid of. Do your exposure in baby steps and it gets easier over time. Eventually you defeat the fear, as you remind yourself of all the times where you've faced your fear and were not harmed by it.
Scott is just like any cult leader, where he promises quick fixes to everything, all you have to do is trust him (and buy his books). If you've come to Scott's daily show looking to become a better thinker, my advice is keep thinking for yourself, actually apply that brain of yours, and don't blindly trust whatever Scott says. He has some interesting ideas, that's why I watch, and he often does come up with new ways to frame various political issues. But it's foolish to start believing in magic, or his simulation theory, or start believing there are quick fixes to life's problems, or that life can ever become perfect. Don't don't immanentize the eschaton. There are plenty of reasons to feel optimistic about the future, but humans are flawed creatures and we will always have problems no matter what utopian visions your (cult) leaders have.
All models are wrong. Some models are useful. All you've really established is that you are strongly connected to your model. Why you feel it's necessary to attack Scott's on his site rather than just walk away and ignore it demonstrates something about you, not Scott.
@@benjaminscherrey1124 And why you felt the need to attack fakecubed rather than walk away and ignore it demonstrates something about you... Please, it's fine for people to leave their opinion, regardless if positive or negative.
@fakecubed Thank you for posting this comment. I feel similarly. I am not sure about the universe as a simulation thing - but the whole premise of the ego death and becoming a potato just sounded stupid and evil. Why would you want to convert yourself into an NPC? What is Scott even trying to do here to his viewers?
Benjamin Scherrey 👏👏👏 I agree.
Mumberthrax I did the exercise and it helped. Scott said it would work on some not all. It didn’t turn me into an NPC. It helped me to reframe worries that I have. It actually opens your mind it does not close it.
I like the concept, but not the terminology. I was very very fortunate to be born with a "outstandingly strong ego" and I never feel anxiety unless I am confronted with very rare actual threats and it is a brief event. I would call it Ego Healing, not ego death. When you realize the only thing that matters is what you chose to perceive and where the responsibility actually resides, and external actions are not your problem. Subjective V Objective and when I hallucinated it was just an amazing visual experience like seeing amazing new Art for the first time and it just added to my library of knowledge. I call it a Highly Defined sense of Right and Wrong.
Anthony Simon I share your terminology experience as well. Unfortunately for some people, including some close friends, anxiety
Is a very real demon that can be relieved by thought experiments such as this one described by Scott.
@@jimphilipp2063 Concur, but at the root of most anxiety (some is an actual chemical imbalance and physiological) is Neuroticism and putting to much importance on a perceived negative possibility as opposed to a Probability.
Yes, great life.
I like it all except for the part where you say the simulation is subjective and you can change it. Your perception is certainly subjective. But a subjective interpretation of a reality, be it a simulation or not. You can certainly change your perception, but you cannot change reality, you cannot change the simulation. I did enjoy the exercise but there's no benefits to the delusion of control.
If we assume Scott's model of reality is true, that it is a simulation which is malleable - who is molding it?
Is it the players, the people here who scott seems to view as NPC potatoes who he's revealing their true nature as worthless carbs to? Does the individual reshape reality through what they choose to believe, do they simply reshape their perceptions? A trans woman will never change their biology, they'll never become a woman no matter how much they might believe- but they might perceive themselves as a woman with enough mental discipline and experience a different reality in the way scott talks about viewing a different movie.
If there really ARE two movies, if there is a transit from one reality to another one, and this place where it is ambiguous where two groups who see these different movies share the same space, why would it be a potato who has created it? Someone who can barely scrape together a life as a human in this simulation doesn't have the knowledge to create a new universe, so an outside force is responsible.
Saw an ad
Alas, I feel a bit worse after this. It's a simulation, a rendering, etc. Then that begs the question of what am I really? Who is controlling me? Am I an experiment? That sucks.
Irrelevant. Cause and effect are the same, simulation or not. You cannot detect that you're in a simulation, nor could you do anything about it even if you could. It really changes nothing. A meat puppet or a simulation of a meat puppet = same thing for all intents and purposes. God's plan = simulator's plan, what's the difference? Who cares. Not all systems think that the "higher power" cares about you on personal basis. Deism for one. Free will or just an illusion of free will, undetectable and same end result no matter what. There are rules to our existence, virtual or not, and until you show me a Neo flying around and dodging bullets, I tend to believe they cannot be broken.
@@ryanhenderson8908 I don't know what you're talking about. I'm not arguing for or against God, the Matrix, etc. I'm stating that I find the thought disturbing and the video did not help me.
@@ScaryBoomBoomGun That's fine. It didn't help me either. What I'm saying is in the end, it doesn't matter what is actually "real" because can't detect it, or do anything about it. Whatever your notions of the universe are, could be true regardless of this thought experiment or how you imagine the world to be. And even if they weren't you'd never know. The idea of a simulation could be real, or could be total hooey (I'm of the latter opinion). Scott may believe in a simulation, but IMO that takes as much of a leap of faith as pretty much any other belief system. I don't have a problem with Scott's ideas other than, for me, it was rather pointless.
@@ryanhenderson8908 Thank you for clarifying. I understand what you're saying.
Take LSD and you’ll figure it out
did he just say go take mushrooms?
Sure. Why not?
No
He basically said it's an option
Reminds me of what I learned while doing A Course in Miracles 20+ years ago.
same thing for me, and works of David Hawkins
Life is a hyper realistic videogame, what would you do? ( Striking Viper - Black Mirror s 3)
I don’t want to be a potato or a leaf or rock. Ego is the truly amazing thing about us beings. To be separated from the world, to be able to gain perspective on reality, that is the miracle of miracles.
Suck up the pain, don’t waste the stupefying impossible odds that fell our way.
Dissociation is a coping mechanism of a trauma victim, but why stop there - the next one is erasure of memories -
from Unbearable Lightness of Being to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I had dissociation for a long time. I never knew what it was until later in life. I thought I lost my mind for good.
It is also a fundamental part of meditation, which everyone raves about for mental health.
2nd!
Calming.