I did my sermon yesterday at the School of Life. The event takes place in a church but isn’t based on any religion, it’s just as a great venue where everyone sings and shouts and then you (which was me that day) give your philosophy of life at a pulpit. The hymn’s yesterday were “Crazy” and “Reach Out” by the Four Tops. It’s got such a great atmosphere, everyone is there open and ready for action. Derren Brown does the next sermon on December 4th. I did my speech after listening to 300 people singing at me so my hair was standing on end. This is my first try out of the new show based on my book “Sane New World” it’s always interesting and sick-making to wing it. I haven’t memorized the script yet so I’m roughly getting the ideas across hoping I’m making sense.
The show is for the 4 in 4, not the 1 in 4 who have mental illness. It’s for everyone who feels the pressure of just living and getting through the day. Our brains don’t have the bandwidth for living in the 21st century, evolution didn’t know this was coming and so we can’t really cope. Part of our brain (the cognitive bit) created this glorious technology which was supposed to make life easier and give us spare time. We wouldn’t know spare time if it came and hit us on the head. The emotional part of the brain is stunted, it just didn’t develop so we don’t know how to cope with the continuous flow of bad news. You open a newspaper and everyone in it is was killed. It’s like we’re junkies for things that drive us nuts even though we know it drives us nuts. Our own thinking is what’s driving us mad. The world is the way it is so now we have to learn how to rewire our habits of thinking and find the brakes so we’re not dragged through life by an endless list of emails to answer. The idea is to become the master not the slave of the mind.
The show is for the 4 in 4, not the 1 in 4 who have mental illness. It’s for everyone who feels the pressure of just living and getting through the day. Our brains don’t have the bandwidth for living in the 21st century, evolution didn’t know this was coming and so we can’t really cope. Part of our brain (the cognitive bit) created this glorious technology which was supposed to make life easier and give us spare time. We wouldn’t know spare time if it came and hit us on the head. The emotional part of the brain is stunted, it just didn’t develop so we don’t know how to cope with the continuous flow of bad news. You open a newspaper and everyone in it is was killed. It’s like we’re junkies for things that drive us nuts even though we know it drives us nuts. Our own thinking is what’s driving us mad. The world is the way it is so now we have to learn how to rewire our habits of thinking and find the brakes so we’re not dragged through life by an endless list of emails to answer. The idea is to become the master not the slave of the mind.
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