Maren Urner — The Neuroscience of Good Journalism

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It's joy talking to all these initiatives who are working on solutions. talking to people who don't wanna play along, who don't wanna behave according to the incentives that other people decided are best for them, even though they know they aren't.

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And it's always a process when people say, this moment changed my life. Well, yeah, that's the story they tell themselves, but it's always a process. That's the one moment that kind of consciously felt it, that you became aware of, okay, what do I really wanna do? Contrary, maybe to the stories that I've been told about what means to have success. That's where it comes to feelings and values, because that's what I like to call the stories we tell, we are these telling stories species. I mean, not only in movies and podcasts and I don't know, bad times stories, but also in politics. It's always a story behind it. That's why I mentioned this term values right from the beginning, or talking about laws, even though they might sound super dry, it's about stories and values.

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Stop ruminating about whether you drink the soy or the oat milk. I'm serious because that's, I mean, it's also fun. So I love those discussions sometimes and when I'm in a good mood, but I. Seriously, don't waste your time on it. Again, your attention is your most valuable resource. So when people ask me what's the most useful thing I can do, is it like buying a bike? Is it like stop eating meat? Is it like this? The most important thing you can do is talk about it. Talk about planetary boundaries. Talk about that. We have to do everything, almost everything different in order to keep our beautiful life support system called the earth. As our life support system, educate yourself about it and talk to other people, and you will realize it's so much fun. it's so much fun because it is a beautiful planet and it gives me a goose skin when I now go outside and see how spring is starting and how I can smell and feel and touch it. Do that, feel it, touch it, talk to other people about it. Go outside and talk about it.

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TGS: Maren Urner
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