Why You Feel Overwhelmed All The Time (and how to fix it) - David Epstein - #1121

“for our modern condition. I've got an essay that I wrote a little while ago. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. The line comes from Hamlet and it's usually misheard as an insult, as if Shakespeare is sneering at morality, like ethics often soften us or thought drains courage from the body.”

“and naming its cost. In the to be or not to be soliloquy, Hamlet isn't really weighing life versus death. He's circling a more practical question. Why do humans hesitate to act even when action would clearly relieve suffering? Why do we endure situations we don't want?”

“I've certainly gone through my era of David Allen's getting things done and Pomodoro timers and Cal Newport.”

“That is a, describes a finding in psychology that people become more creative when the easiest solution is taken away from them. So it is named after the Dr. Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham, which he wrote on a bet that he couldn't write a children's book using only 50 words.”

“Robert Wright who wrote the moral animal and why Buddhism is true.”