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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

UFYB 249: Reality Is Made Up By Your Brain

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

For most people who dip their toes into the world of thought work for the first time, there are usually some questions that come up around subjectivity and reality. “If all thoughts are made up in our brains - is anything really true? How do I know if something is true?” But the truth is, our brains are making things up all the time. We’re actually hallucinating all the time (and no, you haven’t been unwittingly dosed with mushrooms!).

Listen to this week’s podcast episode to learn about the way our brains create our realities, why accepting something as reality first can make it more difficult to change your thoughts about it later, and why you should decide what to believe on purpose.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/249

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0:00.0

Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

0:13.8

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your

0:19.3

host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile.

0:28.1

Hello, my chickens. I have a kind of peak behind the scenes for you today. And also an

0:35.0

episode that might hurt your brain. But that's a good thing. Let it hurt your brain. So one

0:41.4

of the questions that I get asked all the time is kind of once people start thinking about

0:47.9

thought work, thinking about subjectivity, thinking about the idea that all human thoughts

0:53.0

are made up in our brains, sometimes they fall into this kind of wormhole that's like, well,

0:57.9

is anything true? How do I know it's true? And I answer that from a philosophical perspective

1:04.0

on some of the podcast episodes. And today I'm going to answer it kind of from a different

1:07.9

direction. And the way that this is a sneak peak is this is actually one tiny piece of what

1:15.0

I teach inside the clutch. So the clutch is my monthly feminist coaching program. And

1:20.6

we're not open right now. So don't get too excited. But you can join the wait list that

1:25.8

you find out when we open up again for new members, text your email to plus one three,

1:31.0

four, seven, nine, three, four, eight, eight, six, one. That's plus one three, four, seven,

1:37.4

nine, three, four, eight, eight, six, one. You don't need any code word. You just text

1:41.6

your email address or you can visit on fuckyourbrain.com, four slash the clutch, all one word,

1:47.0

to join the wait list. Anyway, inside the clutch, we have different courses and all different

1:52.8

topics. And one of the topics that we have a new course on is called how to believe new

1:58.3

things. This is something that comes up all the time when people start trying to manage

2:03.4

their minds, think intentional thoughts, think more positively, right? It's sort of like,

2:08.6

well, but how do I even come up with what to think? And how do I make myself believe

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