Today we're poking at the power of teeny, innocent-seeming words in creating enormous, perilous towers of thought stories. 

Join me to meander through:

• My research project on inner peace and how it led to a little tangent on the power of words
• How seeing the creation of Big Collective Thought releases you from taking your personal, individual thought too seriously
• Exploring how casual historical labels can shape our modern thinking
• Noticing how the recency bias in historical narratives has implications on societal values and norms in the present day (including around productivity, anxiety and progress)
• Links between this and our individual experiences of inadequacy, stress, worry and overwhelm.
• The freedom that comes with recognising how thought patterns are shaped beyond your control - and how seeing your innocence in this can unclip you from your own inadequacies 
• Several questionable analogies 
• 'Nothingburger' is used on the show for the first time
• Anxious Alice is in a sulk 

Mentioned:

Episosde: We’ve Made up What Mental Illness Is (And Who Decides What’s Normal Anyway?)

Episosde: Expanding the Conversation to Meet These Extraordinarily Precarious Times

Episosde: How That Anxious, Restless, Unsettled Feeling Is Originally Created (Clue: It’s Nothing to Do with You)

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