Arthur C. Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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We're all dealing with a lot of pain.
Um,
And a lot of that, the things that we can change, we should change.
But the divine will in every religion is the whole idea of not just giving in to the divine will, but embracing the divine will.
Thy will be done, not mine.
In almost every religion, that's lowering resistance such that you can actually bear up under the suffering or the suffering itself that still exists is a profound source of meaning.
In moments of suffering, ordinarily, I have to diagnose whether or not I'm resisting.
The first thing I ask is, okay, what are you resisting?
See, here's the thing, super strivers.
your audience, people who really want to take a big, big, big bite out of life, they have this superstitious belief, generally speaking, that if I worry about things that I can't actually change, I'll somehow change.
If I worry enough, if I'm anxious enough, I'll be able to change the gears in the universe.
If I'm concerned enough about this thing that I actually can't change, and they feel irresponsible, almost bereft, if they're not giving enough mental energy to it.
And that's just another form of resistance.
do that all the time and that's what you're looking the the one of the things i regret most is worry yeah because you don't for sure change i know anything and so that's one of the things that i do so when i'm actually suffering a lot i say okay probably there's i know there's a source of pain but what i need to examine is my resistance to that pain what am i doing with respect to my resistance to that pain and that's where the expertise actually comes in that's really very interesting
That's why I've written about different ways to alleviate anxiety, not by eradicating the anxiety, but understanding the biological basis of it.
Being able to change how you deal with it by lowering your resistance in very, very organic and natural ways.
And that's the first thing that I do when my suffering is high.
I stare right at my resistance and go, what am I doing wrong here?
Yeah.
I mean, I do try to solve the problem when I can.
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