HeyJaredFeelings & Other F Words
We’re here to set one thing straight, you cannot hack, girlboss, diet or work-life balance your way into a more successful life. Feelings & Other F Words is a podcast determined to make sense of why we are the way we are and just what the F to do about it.
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F is for 40: The Midlife Crisis Research Just Changed | Ep.313 (opens the original)
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Turning a decade older, Dr. Daryl Appleton is tackling this week's F-word: 40. But don't worry, this isn't a birthday listicle episode. She traces the psychology of midlife from its 1965 origin (a study of 300 artists) through the famous U-shaped happiness curve, replicated across 145 countries and hundreds of papers, to the twist: recent research shows that U-shape has disappeared. Unhappiness now peaks at 18 to 24, especially among young women. Using Stanford's socioemotional selectivity theor
F is for Famished: Why Achievement Never Fills You Up | Ep.312 (opens the original)
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Why does the win you chased for years only feel good for 90 minutes? This week's F-word is Famished, an episode about the appetite for achievement that was supposed to feed us but never really does. Dr. Daryl Appleton digs into who built this hunger, who profits from it, and what to do about it. She opens with the research on the "insecure overachiever", the exact profile elite firms recruit for, then moves through the biology of wanting (dopamine and reward prediction error), the psychology of
Freedom: Why Keeping Every Door Open Is a Cage | Ep.311 (opens the original)
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This week's F-word is Freedom, and not the political kind. The behavioral kind. Recording at 7am in a bathing suit and jean jacket (long story), Dr. Daryl Appleton makes an argument that feels wrong at first: much of what we call freedom is the very reason we don't feel free. She walks through the research, Dan Gilbert's photography study, Barry Schwartz on "maximizers," Isaiah Berlin's freedom "from" vs. freedom "to," and Amartya Sen's idea of freedom as capability, to reveal the two cages we b
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