Derek Thompson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Pain doesn't happen in your arm or in your back.
That's not where pain happens.
Pain happens based on the interpretation of signal, of data, just like we talked about earlier, those 11 million bits of information, that war and peace twice every second.
It's just data.
It's just information.
Now,
your brain's interpretation of that data is in fact what creates suffering.
So this has massive implications.
If you think about not only to medical science, we know that about 80% of healthcare spending is not spent on sickness.
It's spent on illness.
It's spent on curing the symptoms of those maladies.
So one is that we way underutilize, I think, the placebo effect today, that we should all be using placebos in one way or the other, and many of us do.
I think we should do more of that.
And also when it comes to our everyday pain points,
This project is too difficult.
This relationship is awful.
I can't do this.
Exercise is hard.
I'm too late.
There's no time.