SelfWork's You Get the Gist - Is Your Biological Clock Ticking?
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
This "The Gist" is coming out on my own birthday - so perhaps that's why I wanted to know more about what makes our biological clocks tick a bit louder. Pregnancy and midlife obviously jump to mind as probably the most well-known times when your sense of time and maybe even urgency about it may influence your choices. So we'll talk about how to manage that ticking - so you make good choices instead of ones you'll come to regret.
Important Links:
Thought Catalogue's funny piece on a conversation a woman might have with her uterus.
Rutgers study on the male biological clock
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford, and welcome to another episode of You Get the JIST. |
| 0:13.4 | This time we're talking about biological clocks, babies, |
| 0:16.6 | in midlife. |
| 0:17.8 | We'll do it in a quick five minutes |
| 0:19.7 | where you get just the gist. The passage of time is so interesting we can come |
| 0:27.8 | obsessed with it at times especially when it comes to several topics. |
| 0:32.6 | Reaching middle age is one of them, |
| 0:34.8 | then realizing at 48, you're not going to live to be 96, |
| 0:37.7 | that's not really middle age. |
| 0:39.9 | Or realizing that the five or 10 pounds you gain in the winter doesn't come off near as quickly as it used to. |
| 0:45.7 | But when to start a family to have a baby or babies is perhaps the most obvious sign of a biological clock and often the most talk about |
| 0:55.0 | talked about. If you're a woman, you and your uterus and your hormones and your |
| 0:58.7 | Disney vision of being a mom can get in your way and you can feel an ache to have a baby. |
| 1:05.2 | Thought Catalog had a funny piece on just this phenomenon. |
| 1:08.3 | I'll have it in the show notes. |
| 1:10.7 | But here's a conversation between a woman and her very insistent uterus. The woman, I'm not |
| 1:16.2 | ready for kids right now. I still have so much more left to accomplish. Her uterus. |
| 1:21.3 | A look at that adorable baby picture from this girl. |
| 1:24.8 | I went to college with and I've never talked to in my entire life. |
| 1:28.4 | I have to comment on every single one of her pictures of her cute little baby. So baby names, holding babies at |
| 1:35.2 | parties like they're yours, thinking temper tantrums that you see in stores are |
| 1:39.8 | cute. Having an entire Pinterest account on babies, those feelings can loom quite large. |
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