Episode 1267: I Can Stop Anytime I Want and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

About this episode

Gene Appel discusses the lies we tell ourselves about self-control and the desire to manage our own lives without outside help.

"I can handle it. I can stop the spending, the drinking, the gambling, let go of the hurt, any time I want." What we're really saying is: I'm quite capable of being God myself. And that's actually humanity's oldest problem. It goes all the way back to the Garden. The desire to call the shots, control the image, manage the pain, fix the problem without any outside help. But here's the hard truth: if you could handle this, you would have already. If you could get out any time you wanted, you'd ...

People in this episode

Host: Gene Appel

Topics covered

• self-control
• addiction
• spirituality
• personal responsibility
• human nature

Keywords

• self-control
• addiction
• spending
• drinking
• gambling
• humanity's oldest problem
• Garden of Eden

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