Esther Perel
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5,077 appearances
21 recordings
15 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Jun
Esther Perel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You don't know.
You fantasize, you know.
I'm thinking of a story that a friend of mine just told me when he was sitting on a train and for five hours he saw this girl and he just was thinking, I would love to go and talk to her, but he couldn't muster the courage to go speak with her.
Finally, after five hours, he gets up, he goes, he talks, and for the rest, they spend a week traveling together in Europe.
And then he tells me, if I was today, he's the father of a Gen Z, if I would be spending my five hours writing to my AI companion, what should I say?
I'm anxious.
I don't know how to go.
He would have basically spent his time trying to regulate his nervous system and try to calm down, but he would have talked to his AI rather than to the girl.
Yeah.
And he would have talked to the AI about how hard it is to go and meet this girl, and he would never have traveled with her for the week.
And this removing of the friction is, to me, the killer of desire.
We'll come back to that.
But what happens in your statistic is 18 to 25%.
In your time, you basically started this whole process of meeting girls or boys meeting boys, girls meeting girls in your teens.
So 15, 16, you were practicing.
You were falling in love.
You had crushes.
You dealt with rejection.
You rejected others.
It went both ways, etc.
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