Why Awakened People Lose Their Zest for Life | Tolstoy

In this video, we explore why gaining clarity about life can drain the joy out of it, and how Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest writers in history, went through that loss and found a deeper kind of meaning on the other side. At around fifty, Tolstoy had everything: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, worldwide fame, wealth and family. And yet his life came to a standstill. Using his own account in A Confession, along with William James’s classic study of spiritual crisis, this video looks at why awakened people often lose their zest for life, and how some of them find it again.

You’ll discover: The Paris execution and the family death that first cracked Tolstoy’s faith in progress The questions that brought his life to a standstill at the height of his success What “anhedonia” means, and why William James said Tolstoy’s life went from “enchanting” to “dead” The four ways Tolstoy saw people living with life’s emptiness, and why he rejected all of them William James’s own breakdown, and the sentence in his diary that turned his life around The difference between “once-born” and “twice-born” people, and the “new zest” that only comes after loss What Tolstoy learned from the peasants who worked his land, and why he began ploughing the fields himself The dream that ends A Confession, and what it means to stop staring into the abyss Tolstoy’s story “Three Questions,” and his simple answer to how to live The childhood secret of the green stick, and why Tolstoy chose to be buried beside it Losing your zest for life doesn’t have to be the end of the story. For some people, it’s the beginning of a joy that lasts.

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