Hello Theology and Raw fans which are about to listen to is a short teaser episode of another edition of my October

Patreon only podcast in this episode I talk about various things going on in my life, my spiritual life, my ministry, my church life,

and I also talk about some things that I'm reading and thinking through.

The following clip you're going to hear me discuss an aspect of one of the best books I've read in 2018.

It's called The Codling of the American Mind and I discuss some of the most salient ideas in that book.

I hope you enjoy the short teas. They start with three bad ideas.

They have been adopted by...

They start with three bad ideas.

They talk about three bad ideas that have been adopted by well a good portion of

culture today. The first bad idea is this. They call it the untruth of fragility,

and the subtitle is, what doesn't kill you makes you weaker.

In other words, you know, that's playing on the more popular saying,

what doesn't kill you makes you stronger which is more true and the

whole point here is that look it is a widely accepted psychological fact that when you encounter some level of stress, challenge, difficulty in life, it typically

makes you stronger, not weaker. and this builds on the work of

Naseim Talib Taleb he wrote a book called Anti-Fragility which is

Talib is one of the most brilliant public intellectuals in the world today. He's the one that he predicted the 2008 market crash like a few years before he said this is going to happen and he was spot on he

wrote a best selling book called The Black Swan and then he also wrote a book called Anti-Fragility and in that book he argues I've read parts of it

he argues that the human body in that

in that book he argues, I've read parts of it. He argues that the human body,

the human nature, all the way from body, mind, soul, heart, whatever.

We get stronger when we face pressure, when we face challenges, and he's I mean the obvious illustration of even just our bodies like when we put stress through like weightlifting

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