Dr. Alex Curmi
speaker
2,747 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Dr. Alex Curmi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As people are going on this journey and maybe they're doing these kinds of exercises and trying to figure out what's meaningful for them, what are the common roadblocks or obstacles that you find people encounter?
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Come on Roblox.
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Why do people end up in their head like I you know, lots of people are in their heads, lots of my clients.
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I'm a guy who can I can end up in my head a lot.
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Why do we end up there in the first place?
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What happens to people such that they become so disembodied?
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I find the concept of self-hate quite useful in that not only do we retreat into our heads as a kind of defense, but I think a lot of people, because of stressful or potentially traumatic life experiences, actively distrust themselves because in the past
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following their intuitions has led to maybe m a really common example, social humiliation.
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Like you say the first thing that comes to your mind in a classroom when you're five, you end up in a situation where everyone's laughing at you.
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You learn to distrust your intuitions.
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And so it's not merely a process of disconnection, but it's a process of actually aversion to self.
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And what what what I I find to help them
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is to take a really experimental attitude with yourself.
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Be like
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Follow yourself and understand that it's okay that you might listen to your own voice and it still might go wrong.
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And people might laugh at you again.
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Today.
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But that's okay, you c you try that enough times and you cultivate a strong sense of self.
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That can be something that leads to really valuable skill formation.
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That can lead to, yes, maybe a few failures, but some of your biggest victories and the victories which will feel good to you will be the ones that come from trusting yourself as opposed to trusting, you know, the value structure of someone else, like your best friend or your parents or your teacher or someone like that.
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