MILLER: Things like a flashing star for their Christmas tree, an alarm system to keep his little brother out of his Legos. JOAN PISTORIUS: And he would build us things. MILLER: These are his parents - Joan and Rodney Pistorius. RODNEY PISTORIUS: Resistors and transistors and you name it. JOAN PISTORIUS: He used to insist that we buy him all sorts of electronic equipment. And he marches into his parents' bedroom and tells them that when he grows up, he wants to be what he calls an electric man. MILLER: But it all begins when he was 3 years old. To tell his story, we're going to have to leave the question of thoughts for two or three minutes. MILLER: So Martin Pistorius, in the late '70s, was a little boy growing up in South Africa. ![]() MILLER: And to show you a pretty profound example of this. Like, I wonder if you can get a deeper peace if you really. MILLER: Well, I'm not sure if it's always time wasted. ![]() MILLER: Like all that's just time wasted? SPIEGEL: The idea that I don't have to take my thoughts seriously, I find deeply liberating and slightly disturbing when I think about all of the many, many hours that I and millions of people all over the country have spent trying to understand our thoughts and where they came from. MILLER: The new way being that you can just let them all go? SPIEGEL: I think that the new way of thinking about thoughts is deeply helpful to how I think about thoughts. MILLER: What do you think about your thoughts these days? What we should think about our thoughts that we think. SPIEGEL: How to think about your thoughts. MILLER: And today, we are discussing thoughts.
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