Dr. Tara Swart Bieber

That's 40,000 years ago.

10 and 25,000 years before that, we were carving into ostrich eggshells in South Africa.

We were making necklaces out of shells and adorning ourselves.

80,000 years before that, we were crumbling ochre from the ground and smearing it onto our faces and our bodies.

And we believed that there was a reproductive advantage to this because we would look more attractive and more creative.

500,000 years ago, we made tools that were more beautiful and symmetrical than they had to be to complete the task that they were for.

So I'm just going to leave you with that.

Like, if you don't go and do something arty this week, I don't know what's going to persuade you.

Yeah, so I agree with what all three of you said about boundaries and time and compassion.

So I'm just going to bring something different to the table.

I created this model when I was teaching executives at MIT Sloan about the difference between resilience and mental toughness.

So across the top, there's a spectrum of motivation to addiction, which comes from my background as a psychiatrist.

So we all know that drugs and alcohol, you know, maybe a glass of wine makes you more sociable.

But at the other end of the spectrum, you're drinking, you know, way too much and it's affecting your relationships and your work and your health, etc.

But things like work and exercise and travel can also become addictions like that.

And then the other spectrum comes from the financial engineering department at MIT, which shows that increasing risk actually shows up on the same neural circuitry as disgust, usually self-disgust.

So if we take more and more risks with our

our health or our relationships, then we end up feeling disgusted with ourselves.

And there's actually a neurobiological correlate for that.

So the line that I draw between those two spectrums