165. Saying No
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Do you agree to do things you’d prefer not to because you’re worried it would be rude or uncomfortable to refuse? Whether you take on extra obligations at work or make subtle concessions at home to “keep the peace,” your discomfort with saying no is likely impacting every area of your life. Tune into today’s episode to learn how you can say YES to yourself by getting better at saying NO to others.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello my chickens, how are you all? So we are experiencing kind of our first real |
| 0:38.1 | winter day here in New York and I really I can't see I'm ready I can't say I'm pleased but I'm not |
| 0:47.4 | going to resist you know what is we know that's how suffering is created so I was actually just listening to the news |
| 0:55.0 | and I heard two kind of fascinating things |
| 0:58.0 | about the pandemic that I thought were such interesting examples of thought work. Not consciously, it wasn't like |
| 1:05.1 | stories about thought work, but they were such interesting examples about how to see multiple |
| 1:10.4 | points of view or different potential thoughts about an issue. |
| 1:15.3 | So the first one was, you know, as anybody who pays attention to the news knows, they recently |
| 1:20.3 | announced that there are two vaccines that have advanced in their clinical trials and have been found very effective. |
| 1:26.5 | And so one of the scientists that was being interviewed about it was talking about how there was this irony that they thought it would take much longer to get the results |
| 1:36.4 | because in order for the study to progress, enough people in the test group had to naturally |
| 1:41.3 | contract the virus. |
| 1:43.0 | This isn't a study where they are infecting people with COVID, obviously. |
| 1:47.0 | They just give the vaccine to a big diverse group of people who get the vaccine, |
| 1:52.0 | and then a big diverse group of people who get the vaccine and then you know a big diverse group of people get the placebo and then they just have to wait and see what happens right until a certain number of people in the placebo group have gotten it so that they know kind of right |
| 2:05.0 | that enough people have been exposed to it and so they can do the analysis that |
| 2:09.0 | shows you know what proportion of the people you would have expected to get sick in the in the trial group didn't. |
| 2:15.3 | That's you know that's the layperson explanation but basically the point is they have to wait for kind of |
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