Derek Thompson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.
They don't cure cancer.
They don't fix a broken arm.
That's not how placebos work.
Placebos do affect the perception of that signal.
So placebos are highly effective for insomnia.
Placebos are highly effective for ADHD, for anxiety disorder, for all kinds of conditions where the
what you're dealing with is an illness, not a sickness.
It's not a physical break of some kind.
It's not some kind of physical damage.
It's the perception.