Gabriel Mizrahi
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He's the founder of existential psychotherapy.
One of his main ideas was that there are four givens in life.
He calls them givens.
And these are things that we cannot escape.
And one of them is freedom.
Yeah.
Freedom and the crushing responsibility that freedom creates.
For sure.
So like, yeah, we all want to be free in theory, but then that freedom can feel like groundlessness, like uncertainty, chaos, whatever.
It's terrifying.
So most people, like you said, Jordan, do all sorts of things to avoid that anxiety, right?
And he writes about this.
He talks about how we blame other people, deny responsibility, become indecisive.
We let other people choose for us.
We avoid these big questions or we self-medicate or we find a system and then live very rigidly by it so that we don't have to cope with the freedom.
The list goes on and on, all of which I have to say I have engaged in at various points in my life.
Oh, yeah.
So I'm familiar.
Sure.
Probably me, too.