Aditi Nerurkar

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TED Talks Daily · Feeling stressed? The answer isn’t to “just relax” | Aditi Nerurkar · 28 Apr 2025 podcast

It's that we are all stressors.

struggling collectively and yet isolated in that togetherness of the experience of stress, which is a real shame.

So if anything, I hope this conversation today helps elucidate the fact that we are all feeling stressed and that it is okay.

And it is simply a symptom of what's happening.

And most empoweringly is that you can find a way out of that stress struggle using some simple techniques that are cost-free and time efficient.

Oh, I love that question, Michael.

I feel that very much.

As someone who's an academic, I also am very interested in pop culture.

I feel like that's one of the ways that I can really stay attuned to what's happening, what people are talking about and thinking about.

There is a phrase I would love to share with you, which when I first heard it, it knocked my socks off and really gasped, horizonlessness.

It is a phrase coined by a journalist

And I was doing an interview for a publication, and the journalist asked me, tell me a little bit about horizonlessness.

Human beings, we are meaning-seeking, purpose-driven creatures.

And when we have something that we can look forward to, then you have a sense of purpose.

And we can talk about the difference between hedonic well-being and eudaimonic well-being.

Again, very long, fancy words, but there's two different kinds of well-being.

And when you're thinking about this idea of like the future and excitement and you're looking forward to it, think back, you know, when you back in like 2015, you probably had lots of things that you were looking forward to.

But now at this stage, like most of us have that feeling of horizonlessness, which is like this blank bleak feeling when you're thinking about the future.

And that of course is very detrimental to our mental health because you want that forward motion.

I will share something that I hope can, you know, one of the,

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