Sublime

Home Secretary: You can’t compare harms from an illegal activity with a legal one. Nutt: Why not? Home Secretary: Because one’s illegal. Nutt: Why is it illegal? Home Secretary: Because it’s harmful. Nutt: Don’t we need to compare harms to determine if it should be illegal? Home Secretary: You can’t compare harms from an illegal activity with a

He asked: “Do we really know what we’re doing to people?”

He discovered that he felt most alive when he was doing something difficult, like navigating a steep ascent, or finding his way through a ravine. He thinks this experience saved him.

We need to deal with our attention problems before we try to achieve any other sustained goal.

This showed there’s just a maximum limit for how quickly humans can absorb information, and trying to bust through that barrier simply busts your brain’s ability to understand it instead.

As Joel puts it, “our experiences literally get under our skin” and change how our genes are expressed.

The more unequal your society, the more prevalent all forms of mental illness are.

Despair often happens, he had learned, when there is a “lack of balance between efforts and rewards.”