Dr. Alok Kanojia

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14,159 appearances 23 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5d ago

Dr. Alok Kanojia’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 23 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 10.

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HealthyGamerGG · Why Normal Life Feels So Boring · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

We're like, now we're stewing and like now the airport sucks and like the food sucks and I'm missing this and oh my God, now they're doing this and now they're doing this. voice-verified

I'm going to miss out. voice-verified

So there's the actual missing out and there's the being upset about missing out. voice-verified

Another simple example of this is something like a breakup, right? voice-verified

So like there's the breakup itself with which comes with certain amounts of sadness, right? voice-verified

Like, ah, and we actually know that there's a certain amount of literally biological withdrawal that you experience after a breakup. voice-verified

Those are things that you cannot control. voice-verified

What you can control is what you do in response to that. voice-verified

So you start stalking your ex, you're like stalking them on social media, they meet somebody else, that person is slightly better looking than you, or maybe they're not even better looking than you, but you're in such a bad headspace that you see all of the things that they do better than you and ignore all of the things that you're better than them at, right? voice-verified

You also maybe are starting to project into the future about how you're never going to find someone like this, or you go down the social media rabbit hole and you get weaponized against their particular gender and you think these people are terrible. voice-verified

Suffering so buddha says you can't control the sadness of the breakup, but you can control what comes next So now we get to the fun part of the teaching because everyone's like duh, right? voice-verified

Like hey, I got broken up I don't want to be stuck and trapped in in this in my head for the rest of my life like obvi, bro So he says the same is true of pleasure He says equally bad is we have pleasure which life gives us which we have no control over voice-verified

Or I come home after a long day of work and I see there's a package at my door. voice-verified

Someone has sent me a gift. voice-verified

I can't control this. voice-verified

He says what we can control is the obsession that comes after pleasure. voice-verified

So in the same way that a pain ripples out into suffering, if we pay attention to ourselves, any pleasure will ripple out into what he calls obsession. voice-verified

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