The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-07-11 · 68 min · 10,317 words

Why Does My Mind Keep Thinking That?

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a meditation practice for about fifteen years now. And I got into it thinking it would calm me down. I've got a little bit of a highly tuned nervous system. And it has done that. But Over time and in the periods when the practice is a bit deeper,

when I have a little bit more uh grit under its tires, the thing it really seems to do is alienate me from my own mind. I watch what is playing. on the projector of my psyche. And I think Why?

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