Chris Duffy

That's not true.

And yet...

Changing the way that you think about things and your ability to get through each day when you're in a repressive authoritarian regime also could be a really big and important thing, even though it wouldn't change the like larger factor.

So it's like it doesn't solve the problem.

And also you can't solve the problem unless you are able to function.

So I feel like that's one of the big dialectics that obviously I'm picking the most extreme version of.

So think about like, talk to me about how we can think about stress in some of these ones where it is like very external.

It's not just like how I'm perceiving things like you get in a car accident.

That's clearly an external event.

But how does the internal process also matter in that external event?

What would you say to someone who feels like because they look at the news and they look at the outside world and they see horrible things happening and they see other people suffering, that their own suffering is unworthy because it's not big enough?

It doesn't matter.

We could all use some perspective and we're going to get even more of it.

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