Today at Center Parks, I didn't multitask. I saw the gleeful look on my teenager's face as she conquered the zip wire.

Today, I didn't juggle meetings and pad lunches. I helped my little boy paint a cute squirrel pot.

Today, I didn't stress about a work deadline. I swam underwater aqua jetting with my 10-year-old.

Life moves too fast.

Precious moments last longer at ideas to spark your curiosity every day.

I'm your host, Elise Hugh. When you're tackling a major global problem, it's understandable to feel stuck sometimes.

And fighting climate change is one of those challenges that can certainly drive us

to a kind of helplessness.

In his 2024 talk,

climate neuroscientist Chris DeMeyer

shares a key to stop feeling stuck

and it applies to all sorts of situations

where we need to take more urgent action.

That's coming up.

When you're working on a big problem like climate change, it's almost inevitable that there

will be moments where you feel disappointed.

What's more of a problem is when those occasional disappointments turn into a feeling of being stuck all of the time.

When you go, oh my gosh, it doesn't matter whatever I'm trying, it just doesn't seem to be making enough of a difference.

How do we avoid getting stuck like that? Is there an antidote? I'm a neuroscientist,

and about 20 years ago, I became interested in the neuroscience of polarization. In the work I did,

I learned something really unexpected about how people change.

When you become deeply engaged with an issue,

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