Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.

This is episode number 73.

I'm your host Noah Rosheta and today I'm talking about what moves us, the five core social

motives.

Again, before I jump into the topic of the podcast, I want to remind you of the Dalai

Buddhism's advice to not use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist, use it to

be a better whatever you already are.

This has always been a key message that I try to reinforce throughout the podcast and

in my general approach to teaching Buddhist concepts.

So a little bit about this topic, what moves us?

So the idea for this podcast episode started with an email I received from a podcast listener

and I received emails regularly with ideas for podcast episodes and this specific listener

asked for a podcast episode addressing the topic of rejection.

And with a little bit of context and understanding a little bit about the idea of rejection, I thought

that's a really powerful topic because to some degree, all of us fear rejection.

We all know what it feels like to not be the one picked to be on the team or to not have

the approval of parents or siblings or friends.

To some degree, everyone has experienced some form of rejection and I think all of us

fear it.

And there's a reason why I think we're hardwired as social creatures to really fear rejection.

So when I saw this email and I was thinking about the topic of rejection, I thought, well,

it might be interesting to combine a little bit of Buddhism with what psychology teaches,

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