Welcome to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton. And on this week's midweek mini episode, I'm going to do a little bit of Q&A from a few questions that people have sent in over the last little while. So we're going to just dive into a few things. We've got some dating relationships. We've got some human psychology, but a little bit of everything on this episode. So let's dive straight in. The first question is an

interesting one. Extreme sports. So this individual is asking about why people like to do extreme

sports. Why does some people, and this is the question, why does some people have the desire to do more

extreme shit, skydive, island survival, travel in extreme ways? What's this all about? So this can be a

number of things. I think Alan Watts would have said that there are very far out people and far in people

in the world and we find ourselves in

different ways. So for some people, they are going to want to try and find themselves by doing

deep inner work. They're going to try and find themselves by sitting extensively,

meditating, breaking apart their psyche, understanding their shadow, understanding their, you know, their

childhood, their internal family systems. They're going to want to go deep into the understanding

of what has built them, their chronology, their timeline, their enneagram numbers, they're,

you know, fill in the blank, right? They're going to want to do introspection in some ways.

And for other people, how they are going to come to know who they are is by searching for

themselves outside of themselves, creating experiences in the world that maybe put them face to

face with death or put them face to face with extreme situations that show them and teach them

who they are in those moments. So rather than a sort of reflective way, it's a different kind,

sort of like an experiential way. And some of us have, you know, many different versions of both

of these things, right? I, for example, really love both. I probably lean more

towards the far in because I really like to unpack who I am, but I still really like having

travel-based experiences. I'm not so much on the extreme sports side. So all of us will have a little

bit of both. But yeah, for some people, they're just going to want to go out into the

world and try and find themselves there. But in other cases, in more extreme cases, for some people,

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