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Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

What Is Insight?

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

Leo Gura

Self-help, Health

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

A philosophical investigation into the nature of insight, the importance of insights, types of insights, and how generate more and deeper insights.

Transcript

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0:00.0

An insight is an avalanche in the mind.

0:15.0

What is Insight?

0:19.0

In this episode, we're going to take a look

0:21.0

into the mysterious nature of insight

0:23.3

and give you a list of steps for how to become more insightful.

0:28.3

Let's launch right off, not with theory, but with a couple of examples.

0:32.4

The first one is going to be a joke that I like to,

0:34.3

one of my favorite jokes that like to tell.

0:37.0

And at the very end of this joke,

0:38.9

as it gets to the end, there's of course the punchline.

0:41.2

And as in many jokes, the punch line can be both

0:44.5

insightful and it can be a re-contextualization so it's gonna be both in this

0:48.0

case so listen for it and see if you can get it see the nature of insight is

0:52.4

very slippery so you're only

0:54.8

getting one chance of this. A lot of times the trick with insights is that it's

0:59.7

sort of like the analogy that comes to mind is it's like a mysterious animal that is

1:06.0

rounding the corner down a long hallway you're looking down the hallway the

1:09.8

animal is crossing around the corner and all you catch is its tail. You don't

1:13.7

catch the whole animal you don't really know what it is but you catch the tail

1:16.2

you know you saw something but you don't quite know what and you can't quite put your

1:20.6

finger on it but that's because it was so fast right so pay attention here

1:26.7

because it's gonna be fast lightning fast all right so here's the joke

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