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Pursue Pain, Not Pleasure - Why Comfort is Crippling You
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Are We Enslaved to One Side of the Brain? - The Sickness of Modern Man
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Why Democracy Leads to Tyranny
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Why Solitude Promotes Greatness - The Benefits of Being Alone
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1984 vs Brave New World - How Freedom Dies
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Spontaneous Recovery - The Body's Power to Heal from Cancer and Chronic Disease
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The Nocebo Effect - The Mind and Chronic Disease
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Why Lying to Yourself is Ruining Your Life
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How to Escape Mediocrity and Mental Illness - The Road Less Traveled
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Why do Most Relationships Fail? - The Myth of the Magical Other
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Do we Need God? - The Loss of God and the Decay of Society
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Do we Need God? - The Loss of God and the Decay of Society
The Psychology of Malignant Narcissists - People of the Lie
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The Psychology of Malignant Narcissists - People of the Lie
Why are People so Obedient? - Compliance and Tyranny
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Why are People so Obedient? - Compliance and Tyranny
Why Nonconformity Cures a Sick Self and a Sick Society
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Why Nonconformity Cures a Sick Self and a Sick Society
Why Absent Fathers Harm Children and Ruin Society
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Why Absent Fathers Harm Children and Ruin Society
The Psychology of Psychopaths - Predators who Walk Among Us
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The Psychology of Psychopaths - Predators who Walk Among Us
Carl Jung and the Psychology of Dreams - Messages from the Unconscious
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Carl Jung and the Psychology of Dreams - Messages from the Unconscious
How to Stop Being a Slave to the Opinions of Other People
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How to Stop Being a Slave to the Opinions of Other People
Face Your Dark Side - Carl Jung and the Shadow
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Face Your Dark Side - Carl Jung and the Shadow
Can Decentralization Save Humanity? - Why Smaller is Better in Politics
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Can Decentralization Save Humanity? - Why Smaller is Better in Politics
The Uncensored Truth about Inflation - How Inflation Enriches Politicians and the 1%
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The Uncensored Truth about Inflation - How Inflation Enriches Politicians and the 1%
Why are so Many People Neurotic? - Carl Jung as Therapist
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Why are so Many People Neurotic? - Carl Jung as Therapist
Why You Should Seek Power, Not Happiness - Nietzsche's Guide to Greatness
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Why You Should Seek Power, Not Happiness - Nietzsche's Guide to Greatness
Nietzsche and Nihilism - A Warning to the West
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Nietzsche and Nihilism - A Warning to the West
The Art of Building a Fulfilling Career - Turn a Passion into a Lucrative Occupation
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The Art of Building a Fulfilling Career - Turn a Passion into a Lucrative Occupation
How Inflation Precipitates Societal Collapse
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How Inflation Precipitates Societal Collapse
Will Civilization Collapse?
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Will Civilization Collapse?
How to Stop Wasting Your Life - Carl Jung as Therapist
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How to Stop Wasting Your Life - Carl Jung as Therapist
Scapegoating and the Road to Political Persecution
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Scapegoating and the Road to Political Persecution
Why Suffering can Promote Strength and Health
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Why Suffering can Promote Strength and Health

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @jirislavicek9954
    @jirislavicek9954 12 годин тому

    It is ironic that people can handle so much suffering but yet they find persistent comfort intolerable.

  • @OSOForjasCA
    @OSOForjasCA 13 годин тому

    Nietzsche era um idiota.

  • @lilange911
    @lilange911 13 годин тому

    The system isn't broken, it was purposely made this way. Plant medicine is what those in power call weeds.

  • @Sjb2524
    @Sjb2524 13 годин тому

    This has been my journey the past year and it’s been a very curious journey uncovering layers of my psyche but come to know my dopamine more and how to support myself and overcome my fears

  • @anitataraki5512
    @anitataraki5512 13 годин тому

    Is this the new Rich Evans movie?

  • @bshilala
    @bshilala 14 годин тому

    10 years ago I decided to quit taking pharmacueticals and treat myself with diet and excercise. I started primarily eating whole foods and walking several miles, rain or shine, snow or sleet every day I could. I cut our alcohol. Looking back I cant believe how ineffective the pharmacueticals were and they created nothing but choas in my life. I lost a lot of weight and have maintained it. I didnt make all these changes overnight but over a period of months and I am still making changes today. It has also geared me towards minimilism and decreased consumption. I have never been happier and healthier. I have never been able to save so much money saved and feel like i have time to pursue my goals. Instead of attempting to make a drastic change all at once - change one bad habit a week. If i can change anyone can.

  • @mojorising1
    @mojorising1 14 годин тому

    The feeling you get when you meet your basic needs after hard work, a cool breeze on a hot day under a shade tree. That's when I feel happy.

  • @buddyduddyful
    @buddyduddyful 14 годин тому

    Selfish individualism has gotten us to the place were are now-chaos

  • @osp69420
    @osp69420 14 годин тому

    Amazing and insightful

  • @ernstthalmann4306
    @ernstthalmann4306 14 годин тому

    I've been mentally ill for 20 years at 30 now I now realize I've just adapted to a disgusting hell hole

  • @secretbassrigs
    @secretbassrigs 15 годин тому

    do you live in a government that allows you to decide? and what kind of life is that in one that does not?

  • @Martin-yf5zk
    @Martin-yf5zk 16 годин тому

    This video right hear shifted something in me and cleared out questions I've had for many years! Thank you for putting this one together! "The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It's messy and it's scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro" - steven pressfield

  • @RogerKrow78
    @RogerKrow78 16 годин тому

    Yes, and with youtubes full approval.

  • @RogerKrow78
    @RogerKrow78 16 годин тому

    Unless you choose to ignore reality, yes.

  • @pedrof.lacorter.8371
    @pedrof.lacorter.8371 16 годин тому

    All good discipline is somewhat painful. Pain is the signal your discipline is working correctly.

  • @lokinunya8554
    @lokinunya8554 18 годин тому

    I agree with most of the single points here and the everyday biochemical Reality of pain/pleasure balance and threshhold. However I feel the element of longterm vs shortterm logic in our society at large is direclty related to our overall mental frame works of pain and fear/ pleasure and joy. Still good work on this much needed info for peeople at large ☀️

  • @knighthawk882
    @knighthawk882 19 годин тому

    Disabled people who are on pain seeing this video title 🙄🙄🙄

  • @uniquechannelnames
    @uniquechannelnames 20 годин тому

    "The tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering is the primary basis of all human mental illness" is a BIIIG, BOLLLD claim my man Peck. Like wow... Just cause he writes kind of eloquently doesn't mean he's right. Some mental illnesses arise from physical disease, bacterial infections, traumatic brain damage... What about largely genetically inherited mental illness like ADHD or bipolar, both can be very debilitating mental illnesses, well this gets to the world of genetics or epigenetics being the spark of your mental illness not "building the most elaborate fantasies" or the "extraordinary lengths to avoid our problems". He says the lengths we go to avoid our problems are the seed of all of them when quite obviously the seed can be planted within us at birth in our DNA. What about schizophrenia which usually comes on between 18-35 but sometimes younger. Is Peck suggesting it's all their fault because they themselves built elaborate fantasies (which many might not have done until schizophrenia took hold) instead of what seems to be the case, that schizophrenia was forced upon them, we do not fully know through what mechanism it did this, unfolding inside their reality and mind like a cursed flower. These huge generalizations are kind of ridiculous from Peck. You could have found much better source material on the subject of pain and suffering allowing for growth and strengthening. These are silly quotes. Peck: Oh someone's suffering from a delusion or psychosis?? They MUST be from them building an elaborate world of avoidance and elaborate fantasies all of their own accord. Case closed.

  • @taniamatthews227
    @taniamatthews227 21 годину тому

    Yesterday I did a 10km walk with a 3 year old on my shoulders through rocky hills and mud.. I am sore today but I feel so alive!

  • @uniquechannelnames
    @uniquechannelnames 21 годину тому

    Pain ain't the right word to use lol. Discomfort, beyond your comfort zone, discipline, unease, push your boundaries. Physical pain comes from injury not proper strengthening

  • @alvieroach1368
    @alvieroach1368 23 години тому

    Yahoo, google, bing, duck duck go, ask, and there are more search engines. If 5 are telling you one thing, and 2 are telling you another, you're starting to get closer to the truth.

  • @sophiahernandez2501
    @sophiahernandez2501 23 години тому

    Object permanence anyone

  • @peterskove3476
    @peterskove3476 День тому

    Yes yes yes. Having suffered, having faced the dragon, I recognize evil , often before that person can speak. I often called it my dog sense. Hair standing up on the back of my neck kinda thing. Also I lived so long with a bunch of dogs as to have learned it… Yes, we all know the latest example of Hitler, I saw it right off , and I knew some of those who scoffed when I called it would become his loyal victims, and in some cases unrecognizable to the person I knew. It’s like the narcissistic behavior is being taught to them.

  • @apickledcanofcucumbers6544
    @apickledcanofcucumbers6544 День тому

    I wonder then, if it is possible that constant stress and pain become so recurring that even it too becomes a sense of comfort and that to no deal longer with stress and pain becomes the uncomfortable thing to do.

  • @EmyPareja
    @EmyPareja День тому

    From what idea came from?

  • @gamingbyfaro6961
    @gamingbyfaro6961 День тому

    Great Video

  • @TrusePkay
    @TrusePkay День тому

    Discipline is everything

  • @AlecGAAA
    @AlecGAAA День тому

    Progress leads to comfort, comfort leads to laziness, laziness to sickness, sickness to pain, pain to discomfort and discomfort back to progress... Circle of life.

  • @farfetchedfarade3197
    @farfetchedfarade3197 День тому

    Rougly 6 months ago I completely quit all social media. Since then, I have never used social media more than just a few minutes for things like a random reddit post for cooking recipes. Its been life changing. I am glad I quit. I have much more time in the day, less anxiety, and I enjoy solitude more often. Be sure to try and replace the social interaction you had online with real life interaction if you ever quit, it may be online but it still helps connect us. I lost contact with a lot of my old friends because of it, but I realized to a great deal that just HEARING about peoples lives is not the same and them telling you about their lives. It is much more wholesome to have friends who are like minded, who want to hear about you and your life over drinks or during work than through pixels on a screen. Meeting and people social in real life teaches us two things. First thing to be authentic because it is much harder to hide our problems face to face (though not impossible), and also how to listen to others authentic selves. On social media we spend so much time yelling into the world we hardly every take a second to hear what the world is yelling back at us.

  • @caleschnell
    @caleschnell День тому

    Wow, 1:05 literally sounds like what Paul speaks about in 2 Timothy 3 concerning the character of the world before the second coming of Christ.

  • @tabularasa7775
    @tabularasa7775 День тому

    And here this channel is communicating only with our left hemisphere in order to only fulfil it's creators left hemisphere lol

  • @tabularasa7775
    @tabularasa7775 День тому

    The human brain though , it's impossible to put into words how amazing it is .

  • @flakdampler11
    @flakdampler11 День тому

    Regarding being sedentary, getting a standing desk and forcing yourself to use it instead of sitting helps a lot with energy levels and getting started on that whole discipline thing.

  • @kubhlaikhan2015
    @kubhlaikhan2015 День тому

    It isn't democracy per se but the particular form of democracy. The one we have is based on the control of education speech and information but even more than that on a kind of white noise achieved by enfranchising the ignorant and bundling policies together with the two-party system. Its a bit like trying to buy the programs you want on Sky without spending a fortune on those you don't. Genuine enfranchisement is impossible in this system but that is not the worst of it - over time it leads to ever more incompetent government as politicians become spineless corporate appointees. But there ARE other forms of democracy - one in which everyone is entitled to vote but only over the things they know. Thus towns and neighbourhoods decide on local developments, directly, experienced workers sit on boards, and complex national policies are chosen by citizens that have attained appropriate collegiate training. This is not a new idea - it was proposed by Kwang Fu Tse among others. The result is not mere enfranchisement, but the application of maximum combined expertise to every problem. How can it be attained? only by revolution. Tyanny does not retire.

  • @ai_serf
    @ai_serf День тому

    Good topic, but lacks critical theory and places too much emphasis on the individual. In other words, this is a liberal democratic critique of pleasure culture. I love and hate this video.

  • @richardmabe4186
    @richardmabe4186 День тому

    How can being an evolved life form have any meaning? In the East they know life has no meaning. They think this is fantastic because you can just live, this all anyone is doing and it should be enough. If someone claims to have a purpose they think you are crazy as all purposes are made up. Instead they look for the profound experience of being alive. Realistic and enjoyable. Forget looking for meaning.

  • @raminybhatti5740
    @raminybhatti5740 День тому

    Organic pain, i.e. when it finds the individual (as opposed to the individual who purposefully seeks pain as a way of building so-called character) is what is optimal IMO. But that of course assumes the individual is in control of their faculties to the point where they can consciously instigate a form of recovery or a learning process. It's a very delicate process.

  • @Daynnikes
    @Daynnikes День тому

    I stopped using social media about a year ago and I’ve never felt better about myself. Social media gives you the wrong focus.. makes you consider frivolous or triggering content..

  • @jaffarshah120
    @jaffarshah120 День тому

    I had all these ideas already seething in my mind, which only needed this video to set them on fire. now i have realized that our life is akin to achieving physical balance, which is a task full of diurnal, painful adjustments

  • @Anne2u
    @Anne2u День тому

    Thats what they are doing alright. Everyone needs to take a few years of psychology, then at least 5 years in a buddhist retreat.

    • @MrAnarchris
      @MrAnarchris День тому

      Buddhist are committing genocide in Burma.

  • @jameslewis5131
    @jameslewis5131 День тому

    The ability to handle pain and control desires seems to be genetic probably there is actually a genetic mutation that can lead to inability to feel pain. people who experience no pain are still motivated it's just they get in to lot of accidents because there is no fear of pain and no perception of when they get injury.

  • @DanKro
    @DanKro День тому

    Great video

  • @jameslewis5131
    @jameslewis5131 День тому

    The biggest problem of humanity is that there is no freewill were all products of genes, environment, and conditioning, how can you escape it. how does freewill even work in an deterministic universe.

  • @NikeQ
    @NikeQ День тому

    politicians ceded power to the free market after being successfully counselled by the 80's and 90's evangelists of free market who based their economic models on things like game theory, rational decision-making and self-interest. i don't understand why smart people take this mantra of "free market" like its not an exploitable thing. it is, and in a thousand ways. its the main engine behind the whole soft neo totalitarism of modern western democracies.

    • @NikeQ
      @NikeQ День тому

      bought your new iphone yet? or pehaps you'd like bigger lips, bunny ears? marry your dog? values undermine the gdp and make you boring.

    • @NikeQ
      @NikeQ День тому

      besides, democracy's main feature is change and peaceful transition of power. and unless its direct democracy like in ancient athens, representative democracy ends up inevitably being de facto an oligarchy, but still in its essence democracy is the struggle itself for democracy. i suggest reading the short article on the italian newspaper la repubblica, specifically zagrebelski's answer to scalfari on what is democracy, "Referendum, tempo di oligarchie e di chiarimenti: Zagrebelsky risponde a Scalfari" from 2016.

  • @arcturus4067
    @arcturus4067 День тому

    This is an excellent video. I came to the same conclusion but your presentation is articulated in ways I can't. Thanks so much. 🙏

  • @intellectually_lazy
    @intellectually_lazy День тому

    there are no gods that aren't man-made. strap up people, we's gonna have a god hunt, our target: yhwh. yee-haw! get a shovel; i'm a deicidal maniac!

  • @sandipanbiswas2435
    @sandipanbiswas2435 День тому

    What is book name??

  • @Kross_xx
    @Kross_xx День тому

    Who else is watching in 2024?❤

  • @StressResponseAbility
    @StressResponseAbility День тому

    I believe the imbalance comes from even deeper, as we were also complexly traumatized into a fear response, which almost constantly works underneath the surface and brings us into intense emotional states, which then need counterbalancing by looking for safety and comfort to a far greater extent, than we would if our nervous system still got the same ingredients to feel safe from birth on, just like back in those days. Wether you believe in human evolution like portrayed here, or not.

  • @h.hickenanaduk8622
    @h.hickenanaduk8622 День тому

    Pursue not pleasure or pain, only truth, and endure and enjoy that which life brings you with moderation. Who heed me not let all your treasure make you ....