Sarah Shannon

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The Daily Stoic · 6 Stoic Rules To Beat Ego · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

And then it was, got the idea that actually like this is true of everything.

And you just, you know, you end up applying the same paradigm because it was right last time.

And as you say, the key thing is that humiliation, the humiliation and vindication.

And I write about this in the book because there's an idea of the kind of scientist as rebel that comes through.

You see it in the Galileo story.

You see it in Ignaz Semmelweis and his work on antiseptics and maternal mortality.

That's such a compelling story to us.

The idea of the one, usually the one man standing up against the crowd and being laughed at and then being vindicated.

It's so unbelievably emotionally satisfying that unfortunately we vastly over index on it.

And we see it, you know, we almost want it to happen every time.

Yeah, they call it Nobel syndrome, I think, don't they?

When people win a Nobel Prize and then they start going, well, never mind organic chemistry, wouldn't you like to hear a few of my thoughts about astrobiology?

Yeah, Newton spent a lot of his life in alchemy and also a lot of his life on something called biblical chronology, which is so wacky that we don't even remember it today, basically trying to work out when events in the Bible would have happened to work out how old the earth would be from that point.

There's loads of examples like that.

You know, Marie Curie, one of the greatest scientists, she would go to seances.

She would go and see mediums.

It was a very popular thing to do at the end of the 19th century.

And I think there's an interesting bit about that, right?

Because she was working with radiation, which was an invisible force.

that was real, so why not ectoplasm?

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