#1266 Robert Pantano (Pursuit of Wonder): The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Riccardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a fellow YouTuber, Robert Pantano. He's the writer and creator behind the YouTube channel and production house Pursuit of Wonder. He's also the author of several books, and today we're going to talk about his latest one, The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness. how awareness is the beginning and end of suffering.
So Robert, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to have you one. And as I said, off record, I've been following your channel for several years now. I'm a big fan. So thank you so much for doing this.
Of course and thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. Okay, so I mean your book is about self-awareness. I I would like to ask you first What is a self-awareness and how do you come at such a question?
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