Maya Shankar
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1,518 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jul
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Yeah, I mean, I think
it makes so much sense that we as humans evolve to be this way.
It's very helpful for us to be prediction machines that are constantly trying to anticipate future risks and trying to get ahead of them and solve for the future.
The downside to that is that there are lots of changes that are truly outside of our control and no amount of planning will rescue us from those situations.
And in those moments, our brains can kind of short circuit.
I definitely feel like
That study describes me to a T. I would rather know how the story ends.
I would rather have clarity on the outcome.
I was just actually reading a book for an upcoming podcast interview on a slight change of plans.
And this woman cited a study.
She's a physician.
And
She was talking about how people are way more stressed during that intervening period when they're not sure what the medical result is when they're waiting on a test result than they are when they actually find out what the disease is.
And that was really interesting to me because when I reflect back on my life at the moments when I felt the most deeply anxious, the most unsure, my
life and when my well-being has been most compromised, it is in those periods where there is some uncertainty.
And I wonder, Simone, if it's because we lack that agency in those moments.
We're just grasping to try to figure out how we might be able to change the situation.
And in moments of uncertainty, we have the illusion that our involvement could actually move the needle.
But after we receive the actual information, it feels more set in stone.
Yeah, it's so interesting.
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