Personally my goal is to decrease needless and avoidable suffering for all minds whenever and wherever possible. Not all suffering is needless, like exercise or surgery. Some forms of suffering allow us to come closer to wellbeing mentally and physically.
It’s kinda stolen from characters like Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass, and Pema Chodron who themselves found it from yet someone else and so on. I’m giving your video a watch and here’s one in return
Tbh I don’t know about read because I~~ can’t read~~ don’t study psychology, but I heard it first from Daniel Meckler, an ex-psychiatrist. He explains it well and it comes up in every video, so in his eyes it’s the most important thing to grasp about human psychology for your own sake or for the sake of practicing it.
You could scroll through his page and see what topic seems most interesting because you’re almost bound to hear it in one of them
Because we were all traumatised as children. Psychiatrists talk about this
Personally my goal is to decrease needless and avoidable suffering for all minds whenever and wherever possible. Not all suffering is needless, like exercise or surgery. Some forms of suffering allow us to come closer to wellbeing mentally and physically.
Well said. Actually reminds me of what Protesilaos said in this YouTube video on Ares, which I think about a lot
It’s kinda stolen from characters like Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass, and Pema Chodron who themselves found it from yet someone else and so on. I’m giving your video a watch and here’s one in return
Probably not traumatized enough actually.
They also say you can’t not be traumatized. Trauma is how we learn to do and be better.
Where can I read more about this?
Tbh I don’t know about read because I~~ can’t read~~ don’t study psychology, but I heard it first from Daniel Meckler, an ex-psychiatrist. He explains it well and it comes up in every video, so in his eyes it’s the most important thing to grasp about human psychology for your own sake or for the sake of practicing it.
You could scroll through his page and see what topic seems most interesting because you’re almost bound to hear it in one of them
Thank you for a starting point!