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• Check Out the Overthink Podcast Episode Page & Show Notes

To be or not to be? That is the question. At the center of Hamlet’s soliloquy is the issue of whether life is worth living. In episode 72 of Overthink, Ellie and David consider this issue with philosopher and existentialism expert Céline Leboeuf. How can we find meaning in our lives when the world seems random and indifferent to our interests? Leboeuf talks about how her personal experience with an existential crisis and her philosophical search for a way out of it led her to consider religious, atheist, and spiritual answers to the question "Why Live?" Ellie and David also consider Camus’ notion of the absurd, and whether life is just a series of blips of suffering with no higher purpose.

Works Discussed

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
William James, “Is Life Worth Living”
Céline Leboeuf, "Why Live? The Three Authors Who Saved Me During an Existential Crisis"
John Jay McDermott “Why Bother: Is Life Worth Living?”
Samuel Scheffer, Death and the Afterlife
Leo Tolstoy,  A Confession 

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• Check out the Knowledge Project Podcast Episode Page & Show Notes

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Moonshots and Mindsets

• The fentanyl crisis is a fallout of the opioid epidemic and has since taken it to an entirely new level
• The DEA started to notice an uptick in pain drugs starting in 2010; around the same time that the pain management doctors started recklessly prescribing oxycodone, Vicodin, and Percocets, according to Anthony Hipolito
• A person dies of an accidental overdose every five minutes in the United States, mostly from fentanyl 
• Anthony Hipolito estimates that two-thirds of accidental overdoses are caused by fentanyl

• There are poisonings: people are taking a drug (for whatever reason) and do not know that fentanyl has been mixed into what they believe to be taking

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Anthony Hipolito is a sheriff’s deputy in Hays County, Texas with over 24 years of experience in law enforcement. In this episode, Anthony discusses his work to spread awareness about illicit fentanyl use and the drastic increase in accidental overdoses, especially in young people. Anthony explains the deadly nature of fentanyl, including how many counterfeit drugs are now being laced with deadly doses of fentanyl. He breaks down how fentanyl is being brought to the US and how younger and younger kids are being targeted. Additionally, Anthony discusses his goal of spreading awareness to our communities and provides important advice for what parents can do.

We discuss:

• Anthony’s life of service in law enforcement [5:30];
• Fentanyl: medical use, recreational use, and the recent rise in prevalence [8:30];
• The story of a teenager dying from an accidental overdose of fentanyl [16:30];
• The scope of deaths being caused by accidental overdoses (the majority of which are from fentanyl) [23:00];
• How young kids are being targeted, and how fentanyl makes it across our borders and gets distributed [28:30];
• What happens to a person when they overdose [35:30];
• Whether laws around drug possession are helping or hurting, and the need to focus on helping people that feel the need to take these counterfeit drugs [37:00];
• How fentanyl is being added to all kinds of drugs that you wouldn’t expect [42:45];
• What can we do as parents? [47:15];
• Narcan: a treatment for opioid overdoses [50:15];
• Importance of awareness, having conversations with kids early in life, and other key takeaways for parents [56:30]; and
• More.

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• Check out the Modern Wisdom Podcast Episode Page

Richard Shotton is a behavioural scientist, Founder of Astroten and an author.

This might not be news to you, but the human brain isn't designed to be rational. There are cheat codes to get the brain to believe strange things, do strange things and change in ways you might not anticipate. Richard has one of the best insights into this world of mental models, psychology, consumer behaviour, principles for advertising and social change.

Expect to learn the marketing secret about behaviour change that everyone forgets about, how to make habit formation absolutely seamless, why IKEA is so successful even though they don't make your furniture, a hack that any advertising campaign can use to make it stick in people's minds, how to fix the problem of choice paralysis and much more...

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