Welcome back to the Man Talk Show, guys.

I'm Connor Beaton.

Today I'm going to be talking about why you are so anxious and distracted.

So you're anxious and distracted.

Maybe it's ADHD.

Maybe it's too much coffee.

Maybe it's the constant and unrelenting IV drip

of social media content, porn, and information that's pushing itself deep into the heart of your

consciousness on a regular daily basis. Sure, of course, those things don't help. Those distractions don't help you focus.

They don't help you be less anxious when you're constantly doom scrolling through social media

of another violent video or something that's reinforcing a bias or something that's, you know,

showing how bad the world is and is going to end tomorrow.

But there's something deeper that you're avoiding that's the cause of all of these wonderfully

addictive distractions. And that's the unknown, the uncertain.

Everything that cannot be categorized that leads to uncertainty.

You see, from a psychological perspective, uncertainty, when faced, when felt,

is experienced subjectively inside of you as anxiety.

So when you meet any uncertain conversation, the unknown of how a relationship's going to go,

whether you should walk up to that girl in Starbucks and ask for her number.

Boss asks you to come into his office tomorrow morning and have a conversation. All of that uncertainty

is going to create an open loop in your brain,

where your brain is going to try and predict what's going to happen to no avail.

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