Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

and get what you want in life.

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

Kara Loyenthyle.

Hello my chickens, how are you?

All right, so let's talk about today's topic,

which actually kind of relates to the concepts of time

and how it's our limited resource and our anxiety around how to use it.

So if you grew up in the 80s and 90s like I did, you may remember these books that were called

Choose Your Own Adventure Books. I actually Googled to see if they still

make these and they're definitely still available. I couldn't quite tell if they're writing new ones

or just republishing the old ones that we used to read, but you can still get them.

So the premise of the book was that as the reader, you got to decide what you wanted to do.

Usually reading is kind of a passive experience, right? We have to go where the author wants to take us.

The author has made all the decisions for us before we even picked up the book, and we're just along for the ride.

But in a Choose Your Own Adventure book,

there were actually multiple different books that you could end up reading

within that one book.

So let me explain how it worked if you don't know what I'm talking about.

What would happen is you would read a few pages the story would start off normally and then you would

get to a page where it would say something like to go deeper into the forest with Sam,

turn to page 74, to turn around and get in the boat and cross the lake with Jane instead,

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