Derek Thompson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.
All of these limiting beliefs, they give us this temporary satisfaction, but create long-term suffering.
And they decrease our motivation to persist long enough to fix the actual problem.
And so it all comes back to pain management.
So placebos are not effective for healing sickness.