Dr. David DeSteno
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1,091 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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But at a certain point, the tyranny of choice, too much information can drive us nuts.
And so if you do the best you can, but then trust in something else, it reduces that stress.
And I think ultimately then makes it easier for you to achieve that goal down the line, because you also feel like someone else is counting on you.
I mean-
I don't go to the gym.
I should go to the gym.
You know, the one time in my life when I went to the gym, when I had a workout partner who I know if I didn't go, I was going to be like, Dave, you have to come.
I'm counting on you.
And so, you know, there's that added element too.
And so I think the idea of surrender doesn't mean you're not thinking intelligently.
It doesn't mean you're giving over control of your life.
It means you're accepting a partnership with someone else who's going to try and help you.
And again, not for me to say if that's true or not, but I think that's how it works for people.
It's a good question.
In fact, for one episode of my show, we were interested in this because I didn't know the statistics.
And so we invited on a scholar who studies this.
And she kind of shocked me because she said that every year there's between 100 and 200 new religions that form.
Now, the definition there is a little loose, right?
Some of those religions we would call cults.
Some of those religions are, you know, there's a person in Canada who put a Kleenex box on her head and says she's, you know, getting messages from some alien race.
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