Giles P. Croft

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318 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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You Are Not A Frog · The Analytical Brain Trap: Why Smart People Can’t Switch Off · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

It's why people meditate.

It's kind of almost sort of like brute forcing your way into it.

And it's why, you know, meditation, some people like it and other people abhor it.

I mean, between you and me, I just can't be bothered meditating.

It's like, well, it's just like...

But I would say I live in a largely meditative state, I suppose.

You know, there's a difference between having a meditation practice and living meditatively is what I'm trying to say, I think.

You know, because for me, the awareness of how it all works is enough.

I mean, what else do you need?

Why would I need to sit in a dark room?

Yeah.

trying to let go of my thoughts when i can just be more aware it's like well yeah that's a load of nonsense from the left brain isn't it i don't need to take any of that seriously and just get on with my life and not sit quietly for however long i'm supposed to sit quietly for crack on with my life gosh well john i mean i think i think you obviously cracked it lesser mortals like me need a little bit of practice at that whole meditation thing it's interesting i'm doing an mbsr course mindfulness-based stress reduction course and um

the fact that there are more and more people working this way.

I've got so many colleagues who work in this exact same way.

The key for me when it comes to a meditative practice and a meditative state is really seeing, and I use the word seeing...

advisedly it it like really kind of like getting it in your bones seeing insightfully really that that meditative state that right brain consciousness experience that's our default

I think that wasn't our first podcast, didn't you call it Default to Happy?

That's our default.

And when we really see that, because we're all walking around thinking that the left brain experience, that the busy-minded experience, that the intellectual experience, that the analytical experience, that the computer mind experience, that that's the default.

And every now and again, we kind of luck out.

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