George Bonanno
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364 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
George Bonanno’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's been honed by millions and millions of years of evolution.
And you can't activate that response without first feeling stress.
So you have to be upset in order for that response to kick in.
So that initial upset we have tends to blind us to the idea that we'll ever not feel that way.
We have a hard time as humans with that.
Our minds have a hard time with that.
And when there's a disaster, something large scale, there's a kind of a contagion that happens as well.
Other people are upset, too.
And so they're upset and I should be upset and I am upset.
And now you're upset, you know, and that's kind of happens quite fast.
Yes, I think that there's been a tendency in the last decade in particular of focusing far too much on human frailty, I think, as if people are easily breakable.
And there's been a sense of not wanting people to suffer in any way.
There's a Greek concept called eudaimonia, which many people might know about, which is the kind of companion to happiness.
But it's not happiness in the sense of joy and hedonic pleasure.
It's a sense of reward from achieving something.
And that isn't always fun.
So I think a lot of what's valuable in life requires a little bit of struggle.
And there's a tendency right now to avoid any and all signs of that.
I've had many experiences like this.
You know, I recall once when my children were smaller and there was the preschool they were going to.
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