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Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact

80k After Hours

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The Rise of Social Threats

I'm always kind of surprised that that social threats are as like hot to my brain as they are given that I mean, maybe I just don't know that much about historical societies. Yeah, so I guess our brain spent a lot more time with a lot more threats and was incentivized to play it safe. Then it has. In the world we live in now where there aren't that many things that really, really threaten us. There are probably really, really very few things that threaten our survival and at least on a moment to moment basis. And then probably also somewhat fewer thing that threaten our reproductive fitness.

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