"Motivation for Change: If you can front load the pain and if you can front load the pleasure of what would happen if you did the change, that seems to motivate me quite well."

"Self-Perception and Success: You only ever get to see the tiny tiny tiny amount of their nature and you get to see this sort of bottomless depth of yourself. And I think that that can make us all feel like we're special in some ways. We feel like we are unique because the depth of our own insight about ourselves compared to the depth of our insight about anyone else is so asymmetric that how how could we not think that there's something different or strange or special or whatever about us?"

"The Role of a Podcaster: So if I'm aggregating insights from other people and then presenting them, what the fuck else is my job as a podcaster in whatever this version, this sense making e space is. What else should I be doing? If if you want me to come up from first principles, ignore insights from other people and come up from first principles exclusively with ones of my own, you're gonna get 10% 1% of the insights."

"Exploring Emotions Through Curiosity: Here's an emotion that I don't enjoy. It arises inside of me...okay well let's just sit with this for a moment. Not obsess over it but like isn't that interest why am I feeling that and where is that coming from and what might that mean And is it as scary as I think? And all of these questions that curiosity helps you to kind of you're not hiding, you're not intellectualizing in the same way as before, but you're not getting swept away by the emotion too."

"Understanding and Managing Mental Health: 'Maybe the issue isn't that I'm broken mentally. Maybe it's just that I'm sensitive to my inputs and therefore, if I change my inputs, I don't need to be worried about what happens on the other end of it.'"

"Societal Implications of Divorce: Divorce, I think it's more divorces are initiated by women, but that doesn't say anything about whether or not they should have initiated the divorce. You know, if their partner is being unfaithful, or being abusive, or whatever."

"Reducing Birth Rates and Female Empowerment: As you give women more opportunities in life, as you have society becoming more egalitarian, more industrialized, women becoming better educated, especially if you fold birth control on top of that, birth rates decline. They have other things to do with their life, you know, rather than just being mothers."

"Addressing Gender Disparity in Education: I don't really see the same sort of initiatives. No one is saying, why aren't we getting young guys to go to university more? Why aren't we getting young boys to achieve better in school?"

"Youth and Balance: Really, what is the point of doing all of this sacrifice and monk mode and working hard if it's not in service of going out and actually living your life, especially when you're younger."

"Balancing Work and Play: 'What you want to do is basically have a perfect uniform distribution of fun and hard work at the appropriate ratio that you need smattered across your entire week.'"