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00:06:15

S2E87 | The Hidden Psychology of Avoiding Treatment

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2025/08/26

There is a curious thing I have observed in myself and others—a peculiar reluctance that creeps into the soul when faced not with illness, but with the prospect of its cure. How strange it seems that we, who complain so bitterly of our ailments, should harbor such resistance to their remedy. Yet examine this closely, and you will find it is not so unreasonable after all.

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00:06:51

S2E86 | Why Modern Therapy Might Be Robbing You of...

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2025/08/25

I find myself returning, as I often do in these quiet moments of reflection, to a curious observation about our modern condition. We live in an age where suffering has become, almost overnight it seems, a medical emergency requiring immediate intervention. Where once a man might have sat with his melancholy as Dürer's engraving suggests—chin resting thoughtfully upon his hand, surrounded by the tools of learning and creation—we now rush to appointments, clutching prescriptions and therapeutic

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00:06:30

S2E85 | Why Dororo's Dark Journey Reveals Hidden...

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2025/07/25

There is something deeply unsettling about a father who trades his unborn child's body parts to demons for worldly power, yet this grotesque premise of Dororo becomes, paradoxically, one of the most profound meditations on what it means to be human that I have encountered in recent years. When we first meet Hyakkimaru, he is less than human in the most literal sense—missing eyes, ears, limbs, even his voice—yet through this extreme deprivation, Osamu Tezuka forces us to confront what we so casually

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00:07:23

S2E83 | Why the Rich Keep Getting Richer

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2025/07/22

I find myself often pondering the peculiar nature of wealth, how it seems to flow like water seeking its own level, yet paradoxically pools in vast reservoirs while leaving entire landscapes parched. In my youth, I believed, as many do, that fortune was distributed according to merit, that the industrious would prosper and the lazy would suffer the consequences of their choices. Yet as I observe the world more closely, I see that this comfortable fiction dissolves like morning mist before the harsh

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00:07:11

S2E82 | Why Saving is Actually About Freedom

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2025/07/17

I find myself, at this moment, contemplating the curious relationship between the coins in my pocket and the freedom of my soul. It strikes me as peculiar that we should speak of economic liberty as though it were something separate from the liberty of the mind, when in truth they are as intertwined as the roots of an old oak tree. The ancients knew this well enough, though they expressed it differently than we do today, with our spreadsheets and investment portfolios.

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00:06:14

S2E81 | Between Two Rivers

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2025/07/16

When I consider Mesopotamia, that ancient cradle nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates, I find myself drawn not merely to its historical significance but to what it reveals about the human condition itself. Here, in this fertile crescent where civilization first learned to write its name upon clay tablets, we encounter the peculiar paradox of our species: we are creatures who build cities to escape nature, yet remain forever bound to the rhythms of flood and harvest that first shaped our

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00:07:31

S2E80 | How Ancient Wisdom Can Free You From Modern...

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2025/07/16

I have spent many years observing the peculiar ways in which the human mind torments itself, and I confess that I have been both student and subject in this matter. The anxieties that plague us in our daily existence are perhaps as old as consciousness itself, yet we persist in believing that each worry is unique, each fear unprecedented. How curious it is that we should think ourselves so original in our suffering when, in truth, the same basic concerns that troubled our ancestors continue to

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00:06:45

S2E79 | The Surprising Story Behind 10,000 Steps

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2025/07/15

There are moments in human history when the most arbitrary of numbers take on the weight of divine commandment, and few examples serve this truth better than our modern obsession with ten thousand steps. I find myself walking each morning, my device counting each footfall with mechanical precision, and I cannot help but wonder at the peculiar journey that led us to this particular figure—not nine thousand, not twelve thousand, but precisely ten thousand, as if Moses himself had descended from Sinai

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00:06:42

S2E78 | How Your Beliefs Actually Create Your Reality...

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2025/07/15

I find myself pondering this curious phenomenon where our expectations, like seeds cast into fertile soil, grow into the very realities we had merely imagined. The sociologist Robert Merton gave it a name—the self-fulfilling prophecy—but the thing itself is as old as human consciousness, as familiar as the morning sun that rises because we expect it to, or perhaps because our expectation is so deeply woven into the fabric of existence that we cannot tell where anticipation ends and reality

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00:07:17

S2E77 | What Makes Life Worth Living? Ancient Wisdom...

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2025/07/15

I find myself returning, again and again, to this question that has haunted philosophers since time immemorial: what constitutes a meaningful life? Not happiness, mind you—though happiness may follow—but meaning, that deeper sense that our days are not merely passing but accumulating into something worthwhile. The question troubles me because I suspect the answer changes as we change, like shadows shifting with the sun's passage across the sky.

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00:06:07

S2E76 | Transforming Rage Into Power

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2025/07/14

I find myself, at this very moment, contemplating the curious nature of anger—that most human of emotions which visits us all, yet which we so poorly understand. Just yesterday, I observed my neighbor shouting at his garden gate, which had stuck fast in the morning dew, and I wondered: what is this fire that burns within us, and why do we so often mistake its purpose?

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00:06:11

S2E75 | Why Changing Careers Feels Like Betraying...

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2025/07/14

I find myself thinking often about the curious phenomenon of career change, this peculiar modern anxiety that seems to grip us when we consider abandoning one path for another. It strikes me as odd that we should feel such guilt about shifting our professional direction, as if our younger selves had signed some unbreakable contract with our future selves, binding us forever to decisions made with incomplete knowledge and untested assumptions about who we might become.

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00:06:17

S2E74 | Think About Universal Basic Income

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2025/07/13

I find myself drawn to contemplate this curious notion that has captured the imagination of our age: the idea that every citizen might receive money from the state without condition, without labor, without the ancient bargain that has governed human society since we first traded grain for pottery. Universal Basic Income, they call it, though I wonder if anything truly universal exists in our fractured world, and whether income divorced from effort can ever be truly basic to the human condition.

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00:07:46

S2E73 | Why We Pay So Much Tax

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2025/07/13

I was examining my monthly salary statement the other day, that peculiar document which arrives with such regularity that we have grown accustomed to its presence, much like the changing of seasons or the rising of the sun. Yet unlike these natural phenomena, this paper brings with it a certain melancholy, for it reveals to us in stark numerical terms how much of our labor belongs not to ourselves, but to that great collective entity we call the state. The figures dance before my eyes: income tax,

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00:07:04

S2E72 | Why Crypto Makes Me Question Everything I...

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2025/07/12

I find myself, at this peculiar moment in human history, contemplating the strange phenomenon of digital coins that exist nowhere and everywhere at once. What curious creatures we are, to have invented money that cannot be touched, counted by hand, or hidden beneath a mattress, yet which drives men to madness with its promise of infinite wealth. The ancients would surely laugh at our folly—or perhaps they would recognize in it the same eternal human hunger that once led alchemists to seek gold from

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00:06:30

S2E71 | The Stanford Prison Experiment Was FAKE

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2025/07/12

When I first heard tell of Philip Zimbardo's famous prison experiment at Stanford, conducted in the summer of 1971, I confess I was much impressed by its dramatic revelations about human nature. Here, it seemed, was proof of our capacity for evil when placed in positions of power—ordinary college students transformed into cruel guards within mere days, their humanity stripped away by the simple donning of uniforms and the weight of artificial authority. Yet as I have grown older and perhaps somewhat

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00:07:10

S2E70 | How Inner Peace Changes Everything

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2025/07/12

I find myself, at this moment, contemplating the curious nature of inner peace—that elusive state which we pursue with such fervor, yet which seems to slip away the moment we grasp too tightly. It strikes me as odd that we speak of "finding" peace, as though it were a misplaced object hiding beneath the cushions of our consciousness, when perhaps it has been with us all along, patient as a faithful dog waiting for recognition.

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00:08:23

S2E69 | Why Some Have Everything While Others Have...

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2025/07/11

I find myself troubled by a question that visits me often in the quiet hours of reflection: how is it that in our world of unprecedented abundance, where we have conquered distance through technology and multiplied our productive capacity beyond what any previous generation could imagine, we still live alongside such stark divisions between those who possess everything and those who possess nothing? This inequality of wealth, which manifests itself so boldly in our daily experience, seems to me both

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00:06:18

S2E68 | Why I Read Books

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2025/07/11

I find myself this morning with a book in my hands, as I have found myself countless mornings before, and I wonder at this curious habit that has possessed me since childhood. What is it that draws us to these arrangements of ink upon paper, these silent conversations with minds we shall never meet? I confess that I do not always know why I read, only that I must, as surely as I must breathe or eat or sleep.

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00:07:55

S2E67 | The Secret Art of Building Lifelong...

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2025/07/11

There is perhaps no greater mystery in human existence than the curious alchemy by which two strangers transform into intimate companions, yet I find myself compelled to examine this phenomenon as one might study a rare butterfly—not to pin it down and destroy its essence, but to better understand the delicate forces that bring such beauty into being. What is it, I wonder, that distinguishes a true friendship from the countless casual acquaintanceships that populate our daily lives like pleasant but

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