{"id":6269,"date":"2022-06-23T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6269"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","slug":"your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6269","title":{"rendered":"YOUR MIND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In &#8220;The Veil of Thought&#8221;, Sam Harris says &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your mind is\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;the most rambling,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">chaotic,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">needling,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">insulting,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">insufferable person\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">you will ever meet.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s like having some maniac\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">walk through the front door of your house\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and follow you from room to room\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and refuse to stop talking.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this happens every day of your life.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I heard this, I thought, &#8220;Huh. I guess I&#8217;m not the only one.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(By the way &#8211; if you&#8217;re curious &#8211; Harris does offer a &#8220;solution&#8221;, a way to shut up your mind. Meditation. Learning how to exert control over your thoughts.)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;The Veil of Thought&#8221;, Sam Harris says &#8230; Your mind is\u00a0 &#8220;the most rambling,\u00a0 chaotic,\u00a0 needling,\u00a0 insulting,\u00a0 insufferable person\u00a0 you will ever meet.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like having some maniac\u00a0 walk through the front door of your house\u00a0 and follow you from room to room\u00a0 and refuse to stop talking.\u00a0 And this happens every day of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6270,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions\/6270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}