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Being Well · May 25, 2026 · 1h 2m

Right Effort: When to Push and When to Let Go with Yung Pueblo

Forrest Hanson and author/meditator Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) discuss right effort as a middle path between forcing and flowing. Diego shares lessons from a recent 60-day silent retreat, exploring attachment, craving, resistance, and the danger of outsourcing decisions. The conversation pivots to the erosion of nuance in social media, the limits of therapy-speak, and simple practices for those not ready for intensive meditation.

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Highlights

Right Effort as the middle path8:17
Yung Pueblo describes right effort as the balance between forcing your life and going with the flow, drawing from his recent silent meditation retreat.
Observation of craving and attachment reduces suffering15:49
The conversation touches on how awareness of craving and attachment can reduce suffering, based on insights from silent meditation.
Resistance can be a sign of misalignment, not just something to overcome25:19
Pueblo and Forrest discuss whether resistance signals something is wrong or an invitation to push through, complicating the common self-help narrative.
Outsourcing decisions undermines self-trust31:07
They explore why people outsource life decisions to external authorities and how to reclaim self-trust.

Editorial

The death of nuance and the limits of therapy-speak42:41
The episode critiques how social media and therapy-speak oversimplify complex human experiences into reductive labels.
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