The Role of Prayer | Russ Roberts | The Tim Ferriss Show

His latest book, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us, explores the challenges of using rationality when facing big life decisions. He is also the author of Gambling With Other People’s Money, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life, The Price of Everything, The Invisible Heart, and The Choice.

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[angelaj.murilloc.]

Prayer is directly connected to God, it is the best way you connect to Him. Prayer is not only for asking, but working on our gratitude and letting go of negative thoughts and self-blame, it is also a form of meditation.
This is not some-kind-of-God statements. God exists and each one of us decide when to let Him enter our hearts. That is the way it works.

[inbetweenworlds]

Jeremiah 32:17 "Ah Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You."

[smileypc]

Amazing. He doesn’t necessarily push that there is a God, rather he believes and hopes that there is. And my gosh handles his explanations so well.

Q - “I would love to know what prayer means to you and if a version of that is available to people who aren’t religious”

A- “Most people I think can experience the transcendent...I realize to my left that the stars are as vivid as Yosemite… it gives me goosebumps to talk about it… I felt connected to something. Now was I really connected to something? Am I imagining it? I don’t really care actually, I hope it’s true that there’s something greater… but there might not be, but I do feel it sometimes, and I think most of us have moments like that” 🤔

[lilianadoval]

Believing in something or someone that is bigger than all of us, that transcends us, I think it helps to accept the idea of our finitude and makes us a little more friendly with the only certainty that we really have.
Believing allows the brain to go into anti-anxiety mode.
So well explained by Roberts. I agree that a prayer does not necessarily have to be religious.

[inbetweenworlds]

Jeremiah 33:2 “Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is His name."

[jessmason]

Prayer is vital to faith... When the chips are down and you looking for hope 🙏 Prayer is very powerful. Not only are you saying or thinking something to a higher power you also say or think 🤔 about it yourself. Spiritual Affirmation begins with prayer and hope 🙏

[mrjjman]

LOL y’all cannot be serious. The role is its a fantasy land made up thingy adults do to cope. Legitimately cannot take you seriously with this 😂

next episode “the role of the tooth fairy on your mental health and productivity”