Donald Hoffman

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2,139 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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The School of Greatness · The Math Says You've Never Seen Reality | Donald Hoffman · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

So here, here, here you are 200 pound, 300 pound person, whatever it might be, six foot, whatever, or five foot, whatever.

And most of us think that's who I am.

And I'm saying, no, that's just your avatar in a particular headset.

And, um,

you're not confined to that avatar.

You're not identified with that.

You might think you're your avatar, and I understand.

I mean, I'm easily identified with my avatar.

But it's just an avatar, and it's a headset that you can take off.

And we all do.

Well, of course, we all eventually take it off, even if we don't want to.

So we'll all eventually face that.

But we can take it off now.

There are various meditative practices, for example, where you can see that you're not the headset and that you're just looking through the headset and see yourself identifying with the headset, which you can step back.

So I spend time in meditation and basically just letting go of thought.

Literally just, you know, if you ask yourself the question, I wonder what my next stop is going to be?

And you wait in silence.

that space where you don't have any thoughts is, I think, the deepest pointer that I can give to who you really are.

And that silent awareness is you beyond the headset.

And as soon as then you start going into thoughts, then you re-identify with this body and your problems and so forth.

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