The Clarity Podcast

You said yes to something and you didn't mean it. And now you're stuck with the choice and you're not happy with yourself. Most people know the feeling, but few of us ask what it's costing us. This episode checks the cost. And it includes some of what you lose without noticing, and a surprising reason why your constant "yes" might not be winning you the love you think it is. We also look at why saying no can feel almost forbidden in so many Nigerian homes. Then we give you practical ways to tell whether you're being kind or just keeping the peace also tell you practical ways to break the habit of people people.

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You put on a thick glove on and try to operate your phone and nothing happens. You take it off, and you're able to use the phone straight away. Why? Not because your phone can feel you at all. It only feels electricity. In this episode we work out how a sheet of glass knows where your finger is. We also look at why Samsung's S Pen and the Apple Pencil and how they work. And we deal with the belief that a touchscreen phone needs blood of life to work. Spoiler: it doesn't, and there's a simple test you can try at home with a pencil and some foil.

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You see the downfall of someone popular trending, and you feel a small flicker of delight, followed straight away by guilt. This special episode asks whether that flicker means something is wrong with you. We trace it from Aristotle's three Greek words and a brain scan showing envy hurts and a rival's fall feels like the painkiller. Along the way we cover why "he deserved it" is the most powerful justification we have, and why a crowd forms the moment a fight breaks out. Then we talk about the line where ordinary schadenfreude ends and sadism begins. And finally we close the episode as always with practical things to do with the feeling of Schadenfreude.

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You can buy a condom at almost any Nigerian pharmacy today, but getting it there was a journey that took five centuries. This episode traces the storied history from a linen sheath that an Italian anatomist said he tested on 1,000 men in 1564, to Casanova, Charles Goodyear's rubber, and the Comstock laws. It then covers the world war and the AIDS crisis. Through all of it, the argument stays the same: public health against moral objection. Whichever side won at any given moment decided how many people got pregnant, and how many people died.

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The five(5) stages of grief is the popular model that is used to track the processing of loss. But what they don't tell you is that the model isn't a rigid & sequential path. Everyone experiences grief differently and in this episode I try to make sense of what grief actually is from my own lived experiences. We talk about the ways grief manifests and and we end with the clarity of what everyone who is grieving should know and also what those around them should know.

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Africa's biggest IPO just opened. ₦5,250 buys you the minimum number of shares. The offer closes October 13th. And Nigerian X has been talking about it nonstop with different ownership memes dropping, but most of the conversation is either hype or distrust without much in between. This episode answers the questions nobody is addressing clearly: what you actually own when you buy a share, whether you can lose your money, what a dividend is and whether Dangote owes you one, why the share price will move after listing, what happens if everyone wants in and there are not enough shares, and why the market capitalisation is $47 billion. Before you buy, or decide not to, this is the episode to listen to.

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The Nepal disaster that happened on August 26th was caused by a glacier collapse in the Himalayas and this killed over 1,300 people. Every piece of coverage on this event mentioned climate change. It was assumed that most people know what it is and nobody really explained what it actually means. This episode does. We talk about what caused the Nepal disaster at a scientific level, what climate change actually is and how it works, and why the same mechanism is causing the recent Lagos floods, and Nigeria's shifting rainfall. Nepal and Nigeria are thousands of kilometres apart. The crisis connecting them is the same.

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You already know you should save more, spend less, and invest. Most people do. The problem therefore is not knowledge, it is psychology. This episode draws on Morgan Housel's The Psychology of Money and the research behind behavioural economics to explain the specific mental patterns that make financial decisions so hard: why losing money hurts twice as much as gaining it feels good, why your definition of enough keeps moving no matter how much you earn, why you keep interrupting the compounding that would actually build wealth, and why the financial strategy you can actually maintain beats the optimal one you cannot. With a specific lens on what all of this looks like in the Nigerian context.

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This topic was a debate on Nigerian X. Alot of people had a lot of opinions. Most people did not ask what the biological evidence actually says, or even separate the scientific question from the moral one. This episode does breaks down all of that. What the medical evidence says about the hymen. What history shows about how the concept has been applied differently across cultures and time. What documented harm flows from specific virginity enforcement practices. And where sincere religious conviction fits in a conversation that deserves more exactness than it usually gets.

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Everyone knows addiction is bad but not everyone understands what it actually is. This episode explains the real science behind why addiction is a brain disorder and not a character flaw. We talk about what dopamine actually does, why willpower alone almost never works in battling addiction and why telling someone to just stop is also futile. From gambling and drugs to smartphones, pornography, and compulsive sexual behaviour - the same brain mechanism applies. And why Nigeria's response to all of it needs to get significantly better.

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