Dave Evans

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2,777 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Jul

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Hidden Brain · Radical Acceptance · 4 May 2026 podcast

You can't tell a bipolar brain, why don't you just behave better?

So we had already been around a lot of things not of our choosing.

You know, my father killed himself when I was nine.

So reality was something that we had been in school with before.

And that allowed us to go to acceptance first.

The long, slow path to it doesn't look attractive to me.

Yeah, acceptance is step zero.

Before you can even begin formally, the first step in design is empathy, deeply understanding what's going on.

But before you even do that deep understanding, you have to be willing to accept, and that is what is in fact true.

Because reality is the only place things actually work.

Radical acceptance is literally as best you possibly can to eliminate any vestige of resistance that this is in fact exactly the way things currently are.

Hmm.

It's all about this what I had in mind thing.

You know, let's go back to Allison.

We talked about in the previous episode, you know, here's I'm talking to a group of accountants and here's this lovely middle-aged woman and she's reasonably happily married and got two reasonably decent kids and a reasonably paid off car, a small business working with a lot of other small businesses, except she's a little bit bored to tears and mostly just not feeling it.

And what did I do wrong?

Well, she didn't do anything wrong.

I said, look, why did you pick accounting?

Well, you know, because it's predictable and I really like having the right answer.

I like knowing I've done the right thing well.

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