Alex O'Connor

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2,073 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 25 May

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Alex O’Connor: #1 Shift That Stops Endless Overthinking (FINALLY Get Unstuck) · 25 May 2026 podcast

It's because the contingency argument for God's existence is unsound.

Or it's because my parents divorced when I was nine.

The first of those is a very left-brained answer.

The second of those is a very right-brained answer.

And so if you're having an argument with your wife, you know, C.S.

Lewis in the Screwtape Letters, which is a wonderful little novel about

where there's this like demonic undersecretary like this sort of a demonic civil service and this demon has been tasked with a particular human who he's trying to make into an atheist and one of the instructions that he has is like when this person has an argument with his wife convince him that they're arguing about the dishes when they're not really and

So he's going to come home and he's going to say, you know, his wife's going to say, you didn't do the dishes today.

And he's going to go, for goodness sake, I've had a long day at work.

And she's going to go, yeah, but you never do the bloody, and he's going to really, you're going to, you're going to raise your voice to me right now because I didn't do the dishes this morning.

Because it's not about the dishes.

She's not saying you didn't do the dishes.

She's saying, I feel like you don't pull your weight around the house and you don't listen to me and I don't feel heard.

Now this is very sort of like self-helpy type stuff.

You know, you sit on podcasts like this and you sort of go like, you know, and like really you need to like listen to your, but like, I think very specifically you

We are literally becoming convinced that we know why we are acting and behaving in particular ways when we're not because our left brain is rationalizing things for us.

So just take a step back.

Think a bit more intuitively about what's going on in a very sort of non-rational, abstracted kind of way.

Don't try to think about this individual case and go, okay, let's trace the logic.

Just step back and feel for a minute.

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