
Most of what we believe was never actually chosen — we just find ourselves with it, then defend it to the death. In other words, we don't defend ideas because they're true; we defend them because they're ours. What to Believe is where former journalist turned master coach Neil Bierbaum exposes the bug in the human operating system — a bug that makes it hard for us to face the truth about ourselves... more
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 6 | Founded | a month ago |
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Krishnamurti stunned a room of followers with six words: "I don't mind what happens." This episode unpacks what he actually meant — and why surrender isn't giving in, it's giving up preferences. From Michael Singer's Surrender Experiment to a McKinse... more
You didn't decide to wake at 3am and worry — the thoughts simply arrived, and there you were, trying to get back to sleep. That ordinary moment is the clearest demonstration of something most of us never look at: your mind has a mind of its own, and ... more
You can read everything there is to read about a bicycle and still not be able to ride one.
Episode 3 of What to Believe. In the first two episodes I exposed two of the automatic mechanistic ego reactions that run our lives — the need to be right, a... more
We don't worry about what people think of us. We worry about what we think people think of us.
Episode 2 of What to Believe. I expose another mechanistic ego reaction — the need to look good in the eyes of others. It feels so natural we don't even r... more
We don't argue an idea because it's true. We argue it because it's ours.
In this, the pilot episode of What to Believe, I introduce the central insight that I've spent twenty years testing — that there's a flaw in the human operating system that kee... more
A brief 6-minute introduction to myself and the What To Believe podcast.
I'm Neil Bierbaum, a journalist turned master coach, reporting what I found across four decades of investigation into the human operating system, distilling what's true — wha... more
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