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Episode 5: Why am I so *&^%ing TIRED all the time?
This week Claire & James explore uncertainty with Katherine Templar-Lewis, an expert in neuroscience and the science of uncertainty. Katherine has done brilliant work on how to build resilience through increasing our tolerance to uncertainty.
The reason attention scarcity is so, well, scary is because it increases feelings of uncertainty - with which humans are profoundly bad at coping. Uncertainty usually means change, and throughout human history, uncertainty means potential danger (an example in behavioural economics - loss aversion: https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/loss-aversion)…
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