Welcome out to the line podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander for newcomers to this program.

It is a place that we aggregate the world's leading experts on all the things around health,

wellness, fitness,

mindfulness, psychology, all sorts of good topics,

and this conversation is with my dear friend,

Lindsay Simsick, who is one of the most sensitive, intuitive, thoughtful humans that I have in my orbit.

So I'm really grateful to get to share this conversation with y'all.

Before I wanted to share an idea from a fellow called Paul

Graham who writes all these various essays and one of the ideas that I liked

from him and something that I read recently is that one of the ideas that I liked from him, something that I read recently, is that one of the best ways for us to uncover, you could say, mistruths or parts of cultural thought that are incorrect would be to focus on the

taboo subjects. I think it's a pretty cool thing. We have ignorance in silence which is why the

First Amendment is so valuable for people to be able to speak even if the ideas seem

wacky crazy crazy. A lot of really valuable discoveries and inventions come

from something that may have seemed like a wacky crazy idea And I think that by focusing energy into the places that are taboo, you're not allowed to speak

about.

I feel like those are the places if there's a reason to defend those positions

Whether it's a religious thing or that's a political thing if it is

illegal or frowned upon to talk about or think about a certain thing.

I think it's an interesting roadmap on perhaps the topics that it is wise for a thoughtful person to go deeper into.

And I think if we allow ourselves a spaciousness to go deeper into those topics, we oftentimes

stumble upon some information that perhaps was quite true and disruptive to the present narrative from whoever the

the storytellers the narrative tellers the history his story so I think that's an

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