{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Ten Thousand Things","title":"New Year, New You?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2598,"description":"Neurodivergence, New Years Resolutions, and Future Focus\n\nWe welcome the New Year by\nevaluating the usefulness of New Years resolutions\nsharing the honest struggles we’ve had\nsmall triumphs\nAli shares her journey to quit smoking and the strategies she employs.\na positive version of sunk cost fallacy, where we are motivated to defend small gains and build on them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost\nmaking excuses and justifications for not taking responsibility\ntricking yourself into doing things your mind is resisting\nquitting/reducing drinking\ncleaner living, bad skin after xmas blowout\nthe power of vanity in keeping motivated\nAli and Sam pleased about looking younger than some of the other school mums\nhow the concept of future thinking and goal setting has influenced our lives\ntouching on the psychology concept of ‘delay discounting’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preferenceas a key to understanding addiction, financial errors and not getting around to acting on our ambitions\ndebate the relevance of the neurodivergent label for individuals and the three of us\nthe present and future of the show. Our personal and collective mission, methods, and reasons for doing it.\nMeta pod discussion for the stans:\nAs we reflect on our podcast journey, we contemplate whether to foreground our identity as neurodivergent individuals and how it plays into the show.\nWe also share our ambitions for the podcast going forward, including our New Year resolution to de-emphasize diagnoses and just be ourselves.\nSam digresses into the huge value gained from listening to niche and highly specific podcasts\nJoe advocates having ‘no angle’ and ‘no identity’ \nthe value of anything should be in the doing, in the process. Bhakti Yoga and many other traditions teach we should not do things for reward, nor should we be attached to any particular outcome.\nPodding is more like a zine and having absolute intellectual freedom\nSuccess is to have critics as well as praise\nwe express our...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2JAtfDhLe02gUO4tZQPGVO8knrF2fc46Ed_F40DCEtk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQzNzU5LzE2OTEw/MjExMTItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}