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🗓️ 8 December 2017
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Scott Carney is an author, journalist and anthropologist. His work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and a 2016-17 Scripps Fellow at the Center for Environmental Journalism. What Doesn’t Kill Us, his most recent book, is a New York Times bestseller; other works include The Red Market and A Death on Diamond Mountain. Carney was a contributing editor at Wired for five years and his writing also appears in Mother Jones, Men’s Journal, Playboy, Foreign Policy, Discover, Outside and Fast Company.
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0:00.0 | Third Eyrops are intended for open-minded adults. |
0:03.7 | Now administering Third Eyed Drops. The secret to bettering yourself has been sold to us all, probably in a bottle or a book or a makeup package, but on some level we know that's not what it's about. |
0:36.8 | We know that in all likelihood these hypothetical band-aids aren't going to iron out our real existential wrinkles. |
0:47.0 | At best, they might act as some sort of smoke screen or concealer to help us or at least others believe that we've got our |
1:00.3 | shit some modicum of together. So what is real wellness then? What is real |
1:08.0 | betterment? I think it's difficult to define because it's not just something you do. |
1:17.2 | It's not just your intention or your attitude. |
1:22.3 | It is a coalescence. |
1:24.0 | It is a harmony of all of the above, |
1:30.0 | an ever ongoing alchemical alchemical negotiation formula of circumstance, health, |
1:37.0 | sensation, subjectivity, hormonal, |
1:41.0 | neurochemical, balance, and corporeal, |
1:45.0 | touchable, plenty. |
1:48.0 | Really, you need them all, because remove or compromise any one of them in and pow you've got some sort of disaster |
1:58.3 | some sort of discontent depression failure bankruptcy or even worse, some particularly vicious combination of the aforementioned |
2:10.6 | maladies. |
2:12.3 | And given that we need to strike this balance, we are |
2:16.3 | presented with an intimidating scenario, a vantage point from which wellness perpetually seems far off. |
2:30.0 | I am obviously not one to behave as if I am privy to some sort of esoteric truth or like I've got some bit of knowledge everyone else doesn't. that said there is I think a hidden in |
2:46.7 | plain sight sort of bottom line here and it's this you're well now you are well enough and for that matter you are |
2:59.2 | are enough now. |
3:03.4 | Because you are alive, you have your health, you have your potential. |
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