Avoiding Outrage Fatigue in Overwhelming Times
Science Quickly
Scientific American
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🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services? |
| 0:04.8 | So we started the business two years ago. |
| 0:07.2 | We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs. |
| 0:12.5 | But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy. |
| 0:18.0 | Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward slash |
| 0:23.6 | HelloVet. |
| 0:25.8 | For Scientific American Science quickly, this is Rachel Feldman. |
| 0:29.9 | No matter what you believe, I'm willing to bet you've been feeling a lot of outrage lately. |
| 0:35.5 | To me personally, it feels unavoidable. |
| 0:38.3 | I can't look down at my phone or glance up at a TV |
| 0:40.9 | without seeing something that makes me upset. |
| 0:44.2 | And that's really exhausting. |
| 0:46.7 | But when outrage is everywhere, |
| 0:48.8 | what can we do to keep it from getting to us? |
| 0:51.4 | Here to talk to us about fighting so-called outrage fatigue is Tanya Lewis, |
| 0:55.8 | a senior editor covering health and medicine at Scientific American. |
| 1:01.6 | Tanya, thanks for joining us today. Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:05.5 | So you recently wrote about this phenomenon called outrage fatigue. Could you tell us what that is? Sure. So |
| 1:13.8 | outrage fatigue is kind of an informal concept, which basically refers to repeatedly experiencing |
| 1:19.8 | perceived moral transgressions and feeling fatigued by them. So what that basically means is |
| 1:25.3 | just, you know, you see something, you're outraged by it, |
| 1:28.9 | and over time you just become kind of numb to it. Sounds relevant to many of our lives. |
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