Hello everybody welcome back to the primal potential podcast I am Elizabeth

Fenton thanks so much for joining me this is gonna be a tough one if you feel like

maybe you need a friendly butt kicking that comes from a place of love,

you're in the right place. That's what we're going to do today.

I saw a quote that said something along the lines of devitalization

leads to boredom and then boredom in turn leads to sensationalism. And that sounds like a word salad, right? Like, say it again. The point that it's making is this significant cultural issue where we don't have adequate passion and purpose in our lives and so we're

constantly seeking pleasure. we're constantly seeking pleasure.

We're constantly needing the reinforcement of something that feels good,

though it's temporary,

because we haven't built lives we love. And we've settled there.

And so we're constantly needing television, reality television, food, alcohol, drugs, shopping, because our lives don't light us up.

And so we're looking to all of these other things to light us up.

We are an extremely high stimulus society.

In fact, the very first lesson, or actually it's the second lesson,

forgive me, in upgrade is about how we're constantly in this state of we need the next hit of

entertainment and it could be as simple as scrolling on your phone when you're in

line at the grocery store because you're not content

to just be in line at the grocery store.

Or listening to a podcast or watching a show while you go to the bathroom because you need to be entertained all the time.

Or it's not enough to sit on the couch and watch TV at night.

You need food.

You need to layer on pleasure after

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