Welcome back. Thanks again for being here. I think this podcast is just about a year old now.

And I still kind of consider it an experiment,

even though this is episode, I don't know, 37 or something like that,

but it's still been a lot of fun.

So thanks again for still listening to this.

This episode is about things that might seem helpful and beneficial but can very quickly backfire on you.

Most people will die after about three days without drinking any water.

But drinking too much water can be equally dangerous. Water intoxication is deadly. It kills people every year and in fact during rigorous training in the military

There are about a dozen soldiers every year on average who are hospitalized for drinking too much water

May West said,

too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

And that might be true for some things in life.

Maybe you can never be too healthy, too happy, there can never be enough

gold retrievers in the world, maybe that's one of them. But in so many cases,

the thing that helps you can be taken to a dangerous level.

There can be too much of a good thing in a lot of things in life.

And since it's a quote unquote good thing,

not an obvious threat,

the danger of having too much of a good thing

can creep into your life unnoticed.

It makes it particularly dangerous. Take intelligence. When I say that I'm talking

about book intelligence, the kind of thing that will show up on your SAT scores or

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