"When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it"
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The intent feels both personal and professional. For an actor, “core” is the emotional spine of a scene: the playable truth under the explanations. His advice - “just experience it and kind of go through it” - mirrors acting technique that prioritizes presence over interpretation. It’s also a consumer-grade spiritual critique: modern life trains us to narrate everything (trauma, romance, ambition) into content, identity, or strategy, then mistake that narration for wisdom.
Subtext: you’re not anxious because the moment is unbearable; you’re anxious because you’ve built a scaffold of assumptions around it. “Necessary” is doing heavy lifting here, implying most of what we add is less insight than self-protection - rationalizations, labels, future-tripping, moral accounting. The line isn’t anti-thinking so much as anti-bloat: a plea to stop auditioning for control and let the experience land before you decorate it.
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| Topic | Live in the Moment |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Holloway, Josh. (2026, January 15). When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-our-minds-as-people-normally-starts-to-wrap-152042/
Chicago Style
Holloway, Josh. "When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-our-minds-as-people-normally-starts-to-wrap-152042/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-our-minds-as-people-normally-starts-to-wrap-152042/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.





