Nir Eyal
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Amazing.
I mean, so you could start with the surface level thing, or you could go as many layers deep as you want.
Like literally I've, you know, using this technique, it's called inquiry-based stress reduction, which is where we keep inquiring down, down, down.
Okay.
What's, what's really the thing that's causing me suffering?
You know, you could do this all the way to, I could be homeless and
Well, I won't have any friends.
And?
And I could die.
And?
You see, it's just data.
It's just data.
It's our ceaseless desire to judge, judge, judge.
This is bad, this is bad, this is bad.
I don't like this, I don't like that.
I don't like this, I don't like that.
Because our brain's doing it for us.
Our brain wants to protect us.
Our brain is trying to keep us safe.
So it tries to keep us as far away from anything potentially bad.