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Oct 12, 2025 26 min

Ep. 32 - How Much Should I Suffer?

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After 31 episodes of exploring what it means to be human, we’ve finally arrived at one of the most difficult questions of all: why do we suffer? And maybe even harder, does anything good actually come out of it? Suffering is something everyone experiences, yet most of us spend our lives trying to avoid it, numb it, or make sense of it. But what if, as painful as it is, suffering might hold a kind of strange wisdom? What if, instead of just something to escape, it’s something that reveals what we value, what we love, or even who we really are? With the help of thinkers like Viktor Frankl, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust and still found meaning in the midst of despair, I explore how pain might actually shape us into more authentic versions of ourselves, and when it simply just… sucks for no reason at all.

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