Dr. Martha Beck

Did you break the heart of the other lab?

We live in this weird economy where you're supposed to get a job and it's all based on factory work. You're supposed to go to a place and do something you don't really like to get your little allowance and then you go home. And that has only existed for the last couple of hundred years since the industrial revolution. Before that, people existed for hundreds of thousands of years doing what?

We live in this weird economy where you're supposed to get a job and it's all based on factory work. You're supposed to go to a place and do something you don't really like to get your little allowance and then you go home. And that has only existed for the last couple of hundred years since the industrial revolution. Before that, people existed for hundreds of thousands of years doing what?

We live in this weird economy where you're supposed to get a job and it's all based on factory work. You're supposed to go to a place and do something you don't really like to get your little allowance and then you go home. And that has only existed for the last couple of hundred years since the industrial revolution. Before that, people existed for hundreds of thousands of years doing what?

Hunting, fishing, gardening, weaving, singing songs, telling stories, doing the things that we do as hobbies.

Hunting, fishing, gardening, weaving, singing songs, telling stories, doing the things that we do as hobbies.

Hunting, fishing, gardening, weaving, singing songs, telling stories, doing the things that we do as hobbies.

But we have this weird mindset that says, no, if I do things that bring me joy like a hobby does, the things that people have been doing for hundreds of thousands of years, if I just put my joy out there and see what I can do with the wild new creations of our particular time, if I don't do the job, I'm being weird somehow and it won't work.

But we have this weird mindset that says, no, if I do things that bring me joy like a hobby does, the things that people have been doing for hundreds of thousands of years, if I just put my joy out there and see what I can do with the wild new creations of our particular time, if I don't do the job, I'm being weird somehow and it won't work.

But we have this weird mindset that says, no, if I do things that bring me joy like a hobby does, the things that people have been doing for hundreds of thousands of years, if I just put my joy out there and see what I can do with the wild new creations of our particular time, if I don't do the job, I'm being weird somehow and it won't work.

But what I'm seeing is the economic structures of this society are all being fractured. They're falling apart around us. And it's people who are afraid. I used to watch this video of a tsunami that hit Sendai, Japan in 2011, I think it was. And this wave comes in and it eats a city in six minutes, this one wave, and you watch the whole city be ripped to shreds in six minutes.

But what I'm seeing is the economic structures of this society are all being fractured. They're falling apart around us. And it's people who are afraid. I used to watch this video of a tsunami that hit Sendai, Japan in 2011, I think it was. And this wave comes in and it eats a city in six minutes, this one wave, and you watch the whole city be ripped to shreds in six minutes.

But what I'm seeing is the economic structures of this society are all being fractured. They're falling apart around us. And it's people who are afraid. I used to watch this video of a tsunami that hit Sendai, Japan in 2011, I think it was. And this wave comes in and it eats a city in six minutes, this one wave, and you watch the whole city be ripped to shreds in six minutes.

And people are running into the buildings, and then the buildings start to collapse, and you know there are people in there. And I watched this, and I thought, there is so much change in our culture. It's like that wave has hit us. And then accidentally, I hit something in YouTube or whatever, and it switched to Mike Parsons surfing one of the biggest waves ever filmed.

And people are running into the buildings, and then the buildings start to collapse, and you know there are people in there. And I watched this, and I thought, there is so much change in our culture. It's like that wave has hit us. And then accidentally, I hit something in YouTube or whatever, and it switched to Mike Parsons surfing one of the biggest waves ever filmed.

And people are running into the buildings, and then the buildings start to collapse, and you know there are people in there. And I watched this, and I thought, there is so much change in our culture. It's like that wave has hit us. And then accidentally, I hit something in YouTube or whatever, and it switched to Mike Parsons surfing one of the biggest waves ever filmed.

It was a rogue wave, and it went up like 70 feet. And the camera pulls back, and here's this basically naked man on a board saying, with a wave that is like the wrath of God. And he's this tiny little figure. The wave is seven stories tall. And he comes riding down the face of that and it breaks over him and you think, oh, he's dead. And then he shoots out of the spray, just like shouting.

It was a rogue wave, and it went up like 70 feet. And the camera pulls back, and here's this basically naked man on a board saying, with a wave that is like the wrath of God. And he's this tiny little figure. The wave is seven stories tall. And he comes riding down the face of that and it breaks over him and you think, oh, he's dead. And then he shoots out of the spray, just like shouting.

It was a rogue wave, and it went up like 70 feet. And the camera pulls back, and here's this basically naked man on a board saying, with a wave that is like the wrath of God. And he's this tiny little figure. The wave is seven stories tall. And he comes riding down the face of that and it breaks over him and you think, oh, he's dead. And then he shoots out of the spray, just like shouting.

And I thought, those are the choices we have right now. We can run into the institutions that we think will keep us safe and change will crush us and drown us and kill us. Or we can deal with the fact that there's a huge wave of change in our society right now and everything's changing at an accelerating rate.