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

And so I just watch it.

And that gives me the practice so that when I'm actually driving on the freeway, as I was driving up here, and I'm watching the traffic and I'm trying to make it on time for our talk and so forth, to sit there in the car and go, oh, look at that.

Wow, I got frustrated.

Someone cut me off.

Okay.

Well, I have the habit now of being able, because when I have space at home alone, I take the time to build that habit so that I can step back and watch.

So to really do this, you can't just expect yourself to do it.

You're in with both feet.

If you're going to get the watcher perspective, you're going to have to choose, most of us are going to have to choose to spend time

practicing being the watcher and then realizing oh wow i really am not just those emotions i can get distance from them i can watch them and if i watch them that trapped energy in some sense becomes released as positive energy that i can use to to live a more fulfilling life yes so it's not like instantaneous it's it's a new habit for most of us there are some people

deeper than me who can do this much more instantly.

I can say I may be a good one to talk about this because it's not been easy for me.

I've spent tens of thousands of hours in silence because I knew I needed to practice.

That's how hard it is for me.

I think most people would have said I was normal and competent, but I knew that I was anxious.

Inside.

Yeah.

So on the outside, everything was going pretty fine.

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