Jemma Spake
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1,071 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
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They had a tendency towards excessive information seeking.
So spending a lot of time researching, looking at the news, seeing what other people were doing.
And again, it all came back to this fundamental need within these people for control and for answers.
The problem for us, though, and the problem especially for people who are high in this personality trait, is that no one can give you those answers.
Not about how the world is going to turn out.
Not about how your life is going to turn out.
The issue is that people with this trait can't stop trying, though.
And I think that's its own level of curse that goes beyond just the natural human desire for certainty.
So we've talked about why this is.
We've talked about the psychological impact of this on your rationality, on your executive functioning, on your mood, on your physical preparedness as well.
I think it's now time that we move on and talk about
what we can actually do about this anxiety.
Because as much as it does seem very doom and gloom, that this is just how your brain is set up, that is not accurate.
There is a lot that you can contribute and you can add and you can deliberately control that is going to allow you to lean into this anxiety as much as humanly possible in this moment.
So stay with us.
We're going to talk about that and so much more after this short break.
I felt like I got hit by a truck.
I thought, how could this happen to me?
Okay, so we've talked about the negatives of worrying, which I feel like we shouldn't really linger on for much longer.
And we know that like anxiety of this kind isn't good for us.
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