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Overcoming Anxiety During a Crisis
11:26 - 21:15 (09:49)
Anxiety can be useful when there is still uncertainty about what to do, but once you figure it out, anxiety is no longer useful. When you allow yourself to just feel the raw sensations of anxiety, the sensations lose their psychological importance and degrade over seconds.
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Getting rid of fear is not the goal of meditation or any spiritual practice, but rather learning how to let go of it when it is no longer useful.
11:26 - 14:52 (03:25)
Summary
Getting rid of fear is not the goal of meditation or any spiritual practice, but rather learning how to let go of it when it is no longer useful. While fear is a necessary part of our evolutionary and personal toolkit, holding onto it constantly can lead to anxiety and stress in daily life.
ChapterOvercoming Anxiety During a Crisis
Episode#433: Sam Harris on Psychedelics, How to Cope During a Pandemic, Taming Anxiety, and More
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker reflects on his own experience receiving a package during the early days of COVID-19, and acknowledges the double standards he applied to the precautions he took.
14:52 - 17:06 (02:14)
Summary
The speaker reflects on his own experience receiving a package during the early days of COVID-19, and acknowledges the double standards he applied to the precautions he took.
ChapterOvercoming Anxiety During a Crisis
Episode#433: Sam Harris on Psychedelics, How to Cope During a Pandemic, Taming Anxiety, and More
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker experiences anxiety over the scope of a crisis and the difficulty of convincing others of the problem's severity while also feeling like their preparedness is inadequate.
17:06 - 18:49 (01:42)
Summary
The speaker experiences anxiety over the scope of a crisis and the difficulty of convincing others of the problem's severity while also feeling like their preparedness is inadequate. They describe feeling double-minded in their response and being flooded with cortisol.
ChapterOvercoming Anxiety During a Crisis
Episode#433: Sam Harris on Psychedelics, How to Cope During a Pandemic, Taming Anxiety, and More
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Anxiety can be useful when you don't know how to proceed in a situation, but once you figure it out, it loses its psychological import and becomes just a sensation.
18:49 - 21:15 (02:26)
Summary
Anxiety can be useful when you don't know how to proceed in a situation, but once you figure it out, it loses its psychological import and becomes just a sensation. The key is to focus, figure things out and embrace the raw sensation of anxiety to let it fade away quickly.