You 2.0: The Practice of Patience

Hidden Brain visited 16 cities with our Perceptions tour in 2025, and we're excited to visit even more communities across the US this year. We'll have more announcements about tour stops in the months to come. For now, I want to make sure you know about two live shows that are coming up soon. I'll be in Philadelphia at the Miller Theatre on March 21st. and at the town hall in New York City on March 25th.

For tickets to either show, go to hiddenbrain.org slash tour. That's hiddenbrain.org slash tour. I hope to see you there. Okay, here's today's show. This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.

In a famous Chinese parable, a man, frustrated with all of his failures, exiles himself to the woods. There, he meets a hermit with whom he shares his frustrations. Give me one good reason not to quit, the man tells the hermit. The hermit points to a tall patch of foliage. You see this bamboo?

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