Ben Hardy, always and consistently, gives a fantastic amount of good advice. But unfortunately some kind of reference to prayer or faith or spirituality always creeps in, with apparent justification. I realise he can’t help his cultural background, and much of the USA is, like the Arab world, mentally stuck in the 15th century. But it’s a bit weird for a psychology PhD not to come smack up against cognitive dissonance (holding two wildly contradictory beliefs at the same time, e.g. “Yes there is a fantastic amount of suffering by the undeserving and innocent in the world, and child abuse all over the place”, but at the same time, “There is a benevolent deity who loves everyone and has the ability to intervene in human history”. He’s just been a bit busy to pay attention to his own Catholic priests and child abuse, or — if he was there and could do anything about it — the disgusting senselessness of children with brain and genetic damage or cancer.) Skepticism is NOT easy — facing up to being an evolved bacterium on a grain of rock around an average star in the meaningless vastness of a universe which nobody who ever wrote a Holy Book understood the scale of. “Faith” is easy — you tell me something, I choose to believe you, I don’t have to care about the evidence, you can now manipulate me all you like, as long as I have the comfort of knowing that, say, a Jewish teacher who was executed as a social nuisance two thousand years ago is actually still alive somehow and cares about me, like a sort of invisible teddy bear I can mentally cuddle without ever ever getting to see or feel or listen to, except in the wilds of my own head.