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Why Do People Ask Rabbi Shais Taub for Advice

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Rabbi Shais Taub

Rabbi Shais Taub explores how listening and understanding questions can help people find their own answers.

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  1. 0:00All right. So, a little personal confession time. I'm finally comfortable I don't know comfortable is…
  2. 1:02I'm I'm okay with being good at things. I'm not embarrassed of being good at things.…
  3. 2:02weird to me. If I'm barely functioning at living, then how come my advice is so…
  4. 3:03like poetry, word salad. It's not. It's really exact. The question is the answer. The question…
  5. 4:05>> I have a theory about that as well. Some of us perpetually feel like outsiders.…
  6. 5:05When you feel like an outsider among human beings, you have to study the human beings.…
  7. 6:07this stuff really really well? Scumbag narcissist manipulators. >> [laughter] >> You know why they study…
  8. 7:07functioning myself, so I'm just happy to just focus on my own life. I'm not trying…
  9. 8:07avoid it as much as possible because it is so depleting, but I understand that it's…
  10. 9:39you're the type of person who maybe like me has been studying reality just because you…

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