Jonathan Fields
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348 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard May 2018
Jonathan Fields’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's this crazy new phenomenon in society.
It's like, hmm, gee, I wonder.
Yeah.
Um and it's completely natural response.
We want control, we want security, we wanna know what's coming next, we wanna know everything's going to be okay.
And to the extent that you can gather information
You know, take action, do what you can do to to make that happen, do it.
You know, but the sort of like the root cause of suffering is trying to make certain a future which is
By definition, not able to become certain.
And we spend so much of our lives trying to make certain that which can never become certain.
that that translates to spending so much of our lives
Basically embracing suffering.
in the name of something we can never have.
So that's a really hard thing to deal with because we're actually um neurologically wired to experience the unknown, to experience uncertainty, as physical and psychological unease, the amygdala, the fear center in our brain lights up and sends um both electrical impulses and chemicals coursing through us that make us
wanna throw up, that make us wanna run, that make us feel physically and emotionally uncomfortable and we just don't wanna feel that way.
So we try and do everything not to rather than saying
There are some things that I can control.
There are some things that I can't control.
And no matter what, I will never be able to lock down the future.
So
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