It is ironic that people can handle so much suffering but yet they find persistent comfort intolerable.

Nietzsche era um idiota.

The system isn't broken, it was purposely made this way. Plant medicine is what those in power call weeds.

This has been my journey the past year and it’s been a very curious journey uncovering layers of my psyche but come to know my dopamine more and how to support myself and overcome my fears

Is this the new Rich Evans movie?

10 years ago I decided to quit taking pharmacueticals and treat myself with diet and excercise. I started primarily eating whole foods and walking several miles, rain or shine, snow or sleet every day I could. I cut our alcohol. Looking back I cant believe how ineffective the pharmacueticals were and they created nothing but choas in my life. I lost a lot of weight and have maintained it. I didnt make all these changes overnight but over a period of months and I am still making changes today. It has also geared me towards minimilism and decreased consumption. I have never been happier and healthier. I have never been able to save so much money saved and feel like i have time to pursue my goals. Instead of attempting to make a drastic change all at once - change one bad habit a week. If i can change anyone can.

The feeling you get when you meet your basic needs after hard work, a cool breeze on a hot day under a shade tree. That's when I feel happy.

Selfish individualism has gotten us to the place were are now-chaos

Amazing and insightful

I've been mentally ill for 20 years at 30 now I now realize I've just adapted to a disgusting hell hole

do you live in a government that allows you to decide? and what kind of life is that in one that does not?

This video right hear shifted something in me and cleared out questions I've had for many years! Thank you for putting this one together! "The passage from amateur to professional is often achieved via an interior odyssey whose trials are survived only at great cost, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. We pass through a membrane when we turn pro. It's messy and it's scary. We tread in blood when we turn pro" - steven pressfield

Yes, and with youtubes full approval.

Unless you choose to ignore reality, yes.

All good discipline is somewhat painful. Pain is the signal your discipline is working correctly.

I agree with most of the single points here and the everyday biochemical Reality of pain/pleasure balance and threshhold. However I feel the element of longterm vs shortterm logic in our society at large is direclty related to our overall mental frame works of pain and fear/ pleasure and joy. Still good work on this much needed info for peeople at large ☀️

Disabled people who are on pain seeing this video title 🙄🙄🙄

"The tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering is the primary basis of all human mental illness" is a BIIIG, BOLLLD claim my man Peck. Like wow... Just cause he writes kind of eloquently doesn't mean he's right. Some mental illnesses arise from physical disease, bacterial infections, traumatic brain damage... What about largely genetically inherited mental illness like ADHD or bipolar, both can be very debilitating mental illnesses, well this gets to the world of genetics or epigenetics being the spark of your mental illness not "building the most elaborate fantasies" or the "extraordinary lengths to avoid our problems". He says the lengths we go to avoid our problems are the seed of all of them when quite obviously the seed can be planted within us at birth in our DNA. What about schizophrenia which usually comes on between 18-35 but sometimes younger. Is Peck suggesting it's all their fault because they themselves built elaborate fantasies (which many might not have done until schizophrenia took hold) instead of what seems to be the case, that schizophrenia was forced upon them, we do not fully know through what mechanism it did this, unfolding inside their reality and mind like a cursed flower. These huge generalizations are kind of ridiculous from Peck. You could have found much better source material on the subject of pain and suffering allowing for growth and strengthening. These are silly quotes. Peck: Oh someone's suffering from a delusion or psychosis?? They MUST be from them building an elaborate world of avoidance and elaborate fantasies all of their own accord. Case closed.

Yesterday I did a 10km walk with a 3 year old on my shoulders through rocky hills and mud.. I am sore today but I feel so alive!

Pain ain't the right word to use lol. Discomfort, beyond your comfort zone, discipline, unease, push your boundaries. Physical pain comes from injury not proper strengthening

Yahoo, google, bing, duck duck go, ask, and there are more search engines. If 5 are telling you one thing, and 2 are telling you another, you're starting to get closer to the truth.

Object permanence anyone

Yes yes yes. Having suffered, having faced the dragon, I recognize evil , often before that person can speak. I often called it my dog sense. Hair standing up on the back of my neck kinda thing. Also I lived so long with a bunch of dogs as to have learned it… Yes, we all know the latest example of Hitler, I saw it right off , and I knew some of those who scoffed when I called it would become his loyal victims, and in some cases unrecognizable to the person I knew. It’s like the narcissistic behavior is being taught to them.

I wonder then, if it is possible that constant stress and pain become so recurring that even it too becomes a sense of comfort and that to no deal longer with stress and pain becomes the uncomfortable thing to do.

From what idea came from?

Great Video

Discipline is everything

Progress leads to comfort, comfort leads to laziness, laziness to sickness, sickness to pain, pain to discomfort and discomfort back to progress... Circle of life.

Rougly 6 months ago I completely quit all social media. Since then, I have never used social media more than just a few minutes for things like a random reddit post for cooking recipes. Its been life changing. I am glad I quit. I have much more time in the day, less anxiety, and I enjoy solitude more often. Be sure to try and replace the social interaction you had online with real life interaction if you ever quit, it may be online but it still helps connect us. I lost contact with a lot of my old friends because of it, but I realized to a great deal that just HEARING about peoples lives is not the same and them telling you about their lives. It is much more wholesome to have friends who are like minded, who want to hear about you and your life over drinks or during work than through pixels on a screen. Meeting and people social in real life teaches us two things. First thing to be authentic because it is much harder to hide our problems face to face (though not impossible), and also how to listen to others authentic selves. On social media we spend so much time yelling into the world we hardly every take a second to hear what the world is yelling back at us.

Wow, 1:05 literally sounds like what Paul speaks about in 2 Timothy 3 concerning the character of the world before the second coming of Christ.

And here this channel is communicating only with our left hemisphere in order to only fulfil it's creators left hemisphere lol

The human brain though , it's impossible to put into words how amazing it is .

Regarding being sedentary, getting a standing desk and forcing yourself to use it instead of sitting helps a lot with energy levels and getting started on that whole discipline thing.

It isn't democracy per se but the particular form of democracy. The one we have is based on the control of education speech and information but even more than that on a kind of white noise achieved by enfranchising the ignorant and bundling policies together with the two-party system. Its a bit like trying to buy the programs you want on Sky without spending a fortune on those you don't. Genuine enfranchisement is impossible in this system but that is not the worst of it - over time it leads to ever more incompetent government as politicians become spineless corporate appointees. But there ARE other forms of democracy - one in which everyone is entitled to vote but only over the things they know. Thus towns and neighbourhoods decide on local developments, directly, experienced workers sit on boards, and complex national policies are chosen by citizens that have attained appropriate collegiate training. This is not a new idea - it was proposed by Kwang Fu Tse among others. The result is not mere enfranchisement, but the application of maximum combined expertise to every problem. How can it be attained? only by revolution. Tyanny does not retire.

Good topic, but lacks critical theory and places too much emphasis on the individual. In other words, this is a liberal democratic critique of pleasure culture. I love and hate this video.

How can being an evolved life form have any meaning? In the East they know life has no meaning. They think this is fantastic because you can just live, this all anyone is doing and it should be enough. If someone claims to have a purpose they think you are crazy as all purposes are made up. Instead they look for the profound experience of being alive. Realistic and enjoyable. Forget looking for meaning.

Organic pain, i.e. when it finds the individual (as opposed to the individual who purposefully seeks pain as a way of building so-called character) is what is optimal IMO. But that of course assumes the individual is in control of their faculties to the point where they can consciously instigate a form of recovery or a learning process. It's a very delicate process.

I stopped using social media about a year ago and I’ve never felt better about myself. Social media gives you the wrong focus.. makes you consider frivolous or triggering content..

I had all these ideas already seething in my mind, which only needed this video to set them on fire. now i have realized that our life is akin to achieving physical balance, which is a task full of diurnal, painful adjustments

Thats what they are doing alright. Everyone needs to take a few years of psychology, then at least 5 years in a buddhist retreat.

The ability to handle pain and control desires seems to be genetic probably there is actually a genetic mutation that can lead to inability to feel pain. people who experience no pain are still motivated it's just they get in to lot of accidents because there is no fear of pain and no perception of when they get injury.

Great video

The biggest problem of humanity is that there is no freewill were all products of genes, environment, and conditioning, how can you escape it. how does freewill even work in an deterministic universe.

politicians ceded power to the free market after being successfully counselled by the 80's and 90's evangelists of free market who based their economic models on things like game theory, rational decision-making and self-interest. i don't understand why smart people take this mantra of "free market" like its not an exploitable thing. it is, and in a thousand ways. its the main engine behind the whole soft neo totalitarism of modern western democracies.

This is an excellent video. I came to the same conclusion but your presentation is articulated in ways I can't. Thanks so much. 🙏

there are no gods that aren't man-made. strap up people, we's gonna have a god hunt, our target: yhwh. yee-haw! get a shovel; i'm a deicidal maniac!

What is book name??

Who else is watching in 2024?❤

I believe the imbalance comes from even deeper, as we were also complexly traumatized into a fear response, which almost constantly works underneath the surface and brings us into intense emotional states, which then need counterbalancing by looking for safety and comfort to a far greater extent, than we would if our nervous system still got the same ingredients to feel safe from birth on, just like back in those days. Wether you believe in human evolution like portrayed here, or not.

Pursue not pleasure or pain, only truth, and endure and enjoy that which life brings you with moderation. Who heed me not let all your treasure make you ....