Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 398. Or if you're in the private group of

mine, this is episode 597. So I hope you are well and I'm carrying on with this podcast production

that I did let go of for a while. Now in this episode, I do want to talk to you about censorship.

But the reason why is because it's something that we personally do.

So what is censorship?

Well, it's the suppression of information or the suppression of

not being able to say or do something. And we know that's been in cultures around the world,

countries around the world. Even today, we're experiencing a lots of form of censorship

from opposing viewpoints. And it is not for me to say what is good or bad when it comes to

society. It's not for me to impress upon you, which would kind of be like suppressing in a way by saying, this is my point

of view and you having to accept it. And I want to stay clear of that. However, I want us to think

of what censorship for self is. You see, each and every day, you will be censoring yourself. You will be

censoring yourself in many different ways from the fear of what people think or how people would

react or if we share something will it mean that we'll be vulnerable?

Or maybe you could say that's the external. So being censored by the expectation of someone or something else.

And that might not be something that we want to experience. It could be almost also the

censorship when it comes to like the fear of failure. So we don't go and do the things that we want

to do because of the fear of failure. What if it doesn't work out? What's going to happen? So we stay in

our comfort zone and censor any possibility of doing

the thing we really want to do. You see, we are ultimately our own biggest suppressors.

We can say about the world or certain topics right now, which is absolutely true. But really,

when it comes down to lots of types of forms, we're

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