What Spencer Greenberg has said about Exposure therapy
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 10, 2026
Spencer Greenberg, Mathematician, entrepreneur, founder of ClearerThinking.org and co-author of the book 12 Levers, has been quoted on Exposure therapy 2 times in 1 episode of Modern Wisdom, most recently on October 10, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Greenberg says exposure therapy requires avoiding safety behaviors, which teach the brain the wrong rule.
“you have to avoid engaging in safety behaviors. So safety behaviors are things we do to make ourselves feel better in those situations, but they cause our brain to learn the wrong rule”
Modern Wisdom: The Only 12 Lessons Buried In Every Self-Help Book - Spencer Greenberg - #1161 (Oct 10, 2026) · Listen from 31:07
Greenberg recounts that a fear-hierarchy program over about six months dramatically reduced his lifelong social anxiety.
“my social anxiety fell dramatically. And I certainly still have social anxiety sometimes today. But it's shockingly less than it was”
Modern Wisdom: The Only 12 Lessons Buried In Every Self-Help Book - Spencer Greenberg - #1161 (Oct 10, 2026) · Listen from 29:49
Episodes
The Only 12 Lessons Buried In Every Self-Help Book - Spencer Greenberg - #1161Modern Wisdom · Oct 10, 2026 · 1 h 27 min
Spencer Greenberg tells Chris Williamson how hundreds of self-help techniques reduce to 12 psychological levers, covering values, habits, fear, overthinking, productivity and willpower.
Others on Exposure therapy
- Sam Parr · 1 quote
- Julie Smith · 1 quote
Spencer Greenberg on other topics
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- Behavioral activation · 1 quote
- Ego depletion · 1 quote
- Productivity · 1 quote
- Internal family systems · 1 quote
- Intrinsic values · 1 quote