Is Guilt A Wasted Emotion? [Rebroadcast]
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It creeps into everything from exercise to pore size, from diet to personal finance, from relationships to parenting style: guilt that we're not good enough, fit enough, smart enough. And as we peruse Instagram, all we see is the perfection of others reflecting our own failures back at us. Why do we spend so much time feeling guilty? Should we?
Guests:
Devorah Baum, Lucas Mann, Thomas Curran , Stephen Greenblatt, Susan Bandes
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| 0:00.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX. |
| 0:04.5 | The moment the day breaks and I'm in it, guilt is with me. |
| 0:10.2 | What about you? |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Anne Strangeamps and this week we look at guilt in the age of perfectionism. |
| 0:16.4 | We need to be perfect and that if we don't appear perfect, then somehow there's something deficient |
| 0:21.2 | about us. |
| 0:22.4 | We'll look at guilt from its earliest roots in the Bible. |
| 0:25.8 | God tells the first humans that they must obey a prohibition, lest they die. |
| 0:32.1 | To how we understand it today in one of our most controversial systems, criminal justice. |
| 0:38.2 | These jurors were interviewed, and they said that remorse was either one of the three most |
| 0:43.6 | important factors or, in many cases, the most important factor in determining whether |
| 0:48.8 | they were going to sentence somebody to life or death. |
| 0:53.6 | Why we feel guilty and why it matters. |
| 0:57.9 | First this. |
| 1:03.0 | Wisconsin Public Radio. |
| 1:14.1 | It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX. |
| 1:17.3 | I'm Anne Strange Amps. |
| 1:22.8 | Does it ever seem like there are an awful lot of things to feel guilty about these days? |
| 1:33.1 | Are you failing to lean in at work? Falling short on your life goals? Backsliding on your diet, |
| 1:41.1 | feeding your family the wrong food? Imperfection is a terrible thing to live with. That's why, |
| 1:45.0 | to the best of our knowledge, is offering a personalized five-step program to finally fix your miserable, shoddy, substandard self. |
| 1:50.0 | No more counting your flaws at 3 a.m. |
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