Waking Up on The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

This episode is brought to you by waking up. One of the big things we talked about in this episode is that most of the stuff that makes us unhappy, we're doing it to ourselves. The comparisons, the maximizing, the constant feeling that we should be further along than we are and the fix is not to add more stuff to your life. It's learning how to actually see those patterns while they're happening. That's what waking up has helped me do. Drew and I both love this app. It's the best meditation app we've used and it's the only one that I have stuck with and kept my membership over the years. It was created by Sam Harris, neuroscientist, philosopher, best selling author and you can feel that in the app. It doesn't treat meditation like a productivity hack or a way to fall asleep faster. It's designed for people who want to understand their own minds, their own consciousness. There's no single way to meditate and waking up understands that. We quoted Schopenhauer in this episode and about how we never noticed the stream flowing smoothly only the place where the shoe pinches. That's basically what waking up trains you to do. Notice the whole stream and not just the pinch. The guided meditations are what got me started but it's the lessons and conversations with world class teachers that kept me there. It's all grounded, all free of religious dogma. It's for people who actually wanna understand on a deep philosophical level what's going on in the universe and in their consciousness, not just feel better for ten minutes.