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Schauer Thoughts

What is Cognitive Labor? How Do I Know If People Are Using Me for It? Pt.2

Schauer Thoughts

Sarah Schauer & Studio71

Comedy, Education

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Schauer Thoughts? More like Schauer Cognitive Labor! Kidding, we have fun here. Welcome to part two of my mini-series on cognitive labor! Remember, not everyone is out to use you, discernment is a skill, and always do your own research. Thank you all for listening and as always, please feel free to run the episode and resources by your therapist. Make sure to like and subscribe on YouTube, and rate me five stars wherever you get your podcasts! For more information on my book club visit: Substack: https://sarahschauer.substack.com/p/schauer-thoughts-book-club-additional?utm_source=activity_item Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/sarahschauer/membership Resources: The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again - Catherine Price  What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change - Emily Falk Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism - Amanda Montell  Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism - Robert Jay Lifton What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change - Emily Falk https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/annenberg-emily-falk-book-what-we-value Thought terminating cliches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9 The Power of Silence: Unpacking Thought-Terminating Cliches https://desireebstephens.substack.com/p/the-power-of-silence-unpacking-thought Entertrained  https://entertrained.app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi guys, welcome back to Shower Thoughts.

0:10.0

My name is Sarah Shower, and today we're going to be doing a part two to what is cognitive labor and how do you know if someone's using you for it using thought terminating cliches or cognitive labor terminating

0:25.2

cliches to make it easily understood connect the dots but um this is shower thoughts a podcast for

0:31.1

left and right brainers middle brainers anyone with a brainstem any type of nerve we are here we are

0:36.6

queer well you don't have to be queer, but

0:38.1

welcome back, guys. So today is October 10th, and October 5th was my birthday. Woo!

0:45.7

I turned 31, and I love being in my 30s so much. I'm a Libra, Sun, Libra Moon, Gemini

0:51.3

Rising, so I'm a triple air sign. If you're like, wow, Sarah, you seem

0:55.1

really balanced, but a little bit too-faced. I'm kidding. We have fun here. But yeah, my birthday was

1:00.4

incredible. It was an absolutely gay fantasy. So this is shower thoughts. We're going to warm up,

1:06.2

and hopefully this does warm your heart somewhat. Okay, so um context i am talking to this absolutely incredibly

1:15.0

thoughtful sexy witty funny butch with a fantastic ass and an even better smile and um she is so

1:23.3

so cool and so every sunday since my birthday was on, well, not every Sunday, but every other Sunday,

1:28.2

I host a book club. And we're doing Life in Three Dimensions. And what is, so every Sunday I wake up

1:35.3

early to get ready for that, well, every other Sunday. But I don't mind because I don't drink anymore.

1:41.1

So I just wake up normally early to read. And so my book club

1:47.7

is from, now it's from 9 to 1130 because I wanted an additional hour because my book club members

1:54.3

were like, we want to build community. And I was like, yeah, and to build community, you need more time.

1:58.2

So an additional hour. And then after that, I teach my

2:02.1

annotation session, like how I annotate books. And so I added an additional 45 minutes to that

2:08.1

because I was like, you know what, if book club gets an additional hour, I need additional 45 minutes

2:13.1

for annotations. So in total, it's about four hours. It goes from 9 to 1130 and then 1145 to 115 is,

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