Trevor Noah
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Appearances Over Time
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Save the world, do God's will, or write poetry.
And I had this moment where I just was in my room.
I had books all over the floor.
I was reading two to three books a week because I'm a reader like you.
Not two to three books a week reading.
Back then I was...
reading two to three books a week.
I'm still reading a lot.
In any case, I pick up a book about another cult leader named Gurdjieff.
You ever heard of Gurdjieff?
No, never heard of Gurdjieff.
Turned out my next-door neighbor's father was into Gurdjieff, so he had introduced me to this.
So I was already primed a bit into mankind is asleep and we have to wake up.
But you're hitting on another universal point that's really...
demanding, underlining, and with a red pencil, that the ideologies have truthful, important things in it.
And they quote famous people who say really important things.
So it's not just all BS.
And that's also, as a therapist, that's what I try to do in helping my clients deconstruct
How did they get hooked?