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Sean Crampton - Books That Changed My Life: Keeping The Love You Find #2

4 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video excerpt in which Sean Crampton (featured in Chris Collins’ "Books That Changed My Life" series) describes a therapy insight: he had been living in fantasy—misrepresenting conversations and situations to feel safe or familiar—and learned that familiar does not equal good. The speaker attributes part of this realization to a book (Keeping The Love You Find) and emphasizes distinguishing fantasy (what he wants/supposes) from reality (what is).

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What I learned with my therapist is that I had been living in a lot of fantasy. I used to think fantasy and reality were, like, so drastically different, but fantasy is just what I think the situation is or what I want it to be. And reality is. It is what it is. And so I was living in a lot of, like, twisting what you said to make it feel comfortable, safe, familiar. Because I realized through this book, too, like, familiar doesn't mean good, it just means familiar.