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How to Control Your Thoughts

Presenter:

Sam Harris & Dr. Andy Galpin

Time:

14:50

Summary

Sam Harris and Dr. Andy Galpin discuss how being identified with thoughts drives moment-to-moment psychological suffering and the three approaches available for working with the mind.

Transcript

If I asked virtually anyone, I mean, anyone who doesn't happen to be an expert meditator, to pay attention to anything for the next 30 seconds, I mean, anyone listening to us now can try this.

They can pause the the podcast and and just try to pay attention to anything, either the the sight

outside your window, or the the sounds in your environment, or the feeling of the of breathing,

you know anything you you want to pay attention to in your experience for 30 seconds without

getting lost in thought. No one can do it. I mean, and and I mean this is a very precise claim.

It's you know I mean you couldn't do it if your life depended on it. You couldn't do it if the lives of

your children depended on it. You couldn't do it. Many people will think; Many people will try this,

and they'll think they succeeded.

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