It’s the season of New Year’s resolutions and attempts to try new things. While there’s plenty of episodes where we talk about the ways this can manifest, I wanted to replay our first-ever Deep Dive; remastered for better audio.

Self-Denial is undeniably a strong force in the human experience; the question is, is it a force that is good or bad? Or is it something else? What impacts does self-denial have on our experience of the world? Or could it, in fact, be what allows us to be human in the first place?

We’ll be back with new Daily Download episodes on January 8, 2018. Happy New Year!