We give up! Why things feel so bad right now
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AsapSCIENCE
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The news is horrible right now - or is it? Today we explain why one of us is giving up, and the other is trying to reach into psychology and science to cope - but in the end is there a solution? Trump's inauguration, tariff's, racism, inequality, gun rights, statues, labour issues, war, genocide - are things actually getting worse or is it all in your head?
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| 0:00.0 | controversial subjects with the facts can be tense, |
| 0:02.6 | but we are a sub-science here to make things make sense. |
| 0:06.1 | Today we're talking about feeling overwhelmed, |
| 0:09.4 | losing hope, |
| 0:10.1 | existential dread, |
| 0:11.0 | but in the context of why things feel so bad right now |
| 0:14.7 | and how and what we can do to overcome it |
| 0:17.3 | from like a psychological perspective. |
| 0:19.2 | It's fascinating. |
| 0:20.4 | It's relevant and it's the now and we're |
| 0:23.5 | feeling it yeah it's weird it's like i guess we're like last week we were like we'll do a fun one like |
| 0:29.2 | faceless and then it's just like no but it's just too like pertinent right now and pressing and it's |
| 0:35.1 | just like okay like yeah everyone's freaking out and like |
| 0:39.8 | things are crazy and so I think the world is actually you know we've talked about this a lot |
| 0:44.6 | really hard right now for a lot of people for a lot of like variety of reasons so I think this |
| 0:50.4 | episode will be in some ways agnostic to the specific problems, even though we all |
| 0:55.4 | know what we're thinking. Everyone here listening to this podcast is probably on the same. |
| 0:58.7 | Not everyone. I have some interesting like ways to think about it and like be less like we're all |
| 1:05.1 | on one side. Yeah, I don't I don't also mean that we're all on one side. I guess I mean like |
| 1:09.3 | a lot of these issues could be even |
| 1:11.4 | informed by like environmental crisis. What do you call when people are like feeling overwhelmed |
| 1:17.0 | with it? It could be caused by social issues. It could be caused by political issues. It could be caused |
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