Episode 8 - Are your thoughts serving you?
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Do your thoughts serve you or are they your master?
Many people would have heard the name WIlliam James and probably think of him as the father of American philosophy. You may also know him for the many quotes ascribed to him including 'If you change your mind, you change your life.'
But few would recognise him as a man who was plagued for most of his life by depression, thoughts of suicide and the occasional bout of a crisis of meaning.
He was tone deaf, and suffered from various ailments, including eye, back and stomach issues.
After graduating as a medical doctor in 1869, he descended into a period of what he called soul-sickness, probably what we today call depression, which took him 3 years to overcome.
He suffered panic attacks and hallucinations during this time, as he had on many other occasions throughout his life, but there came a day in 1870, while an essay by a French philosopher in which he discovers the idea of free will in thought.
That is, instead of him being subservient to his thoughts, they can be subservient to him.
He discovers this definition of free will. 'The sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts.'
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