The Saturday Exhale Episode 13: What Should We Hope For?
Alex Tarnava on what POWs, prison gang enforcers, and Google wellness consultants can teach us about dealing with crisis. Vadim Gershteyn, PhD, MPH served as my editor for StressHacked and contributed writing to my upcoming book The Stone Wall. He joins me for this discussion. VG: In a reading from StressHacked: The Mind, you recount […]
The Saturday Exhale Episode 12: When Not to Eat the Frog
Alex Tarnava unpacks why absolutist productivity culture turns work into performance, self-criticism, and paralysis. Vadim Gershteyn, PhD, MPH served as my editor for StressHacked and contributed writing to my upcoming book The Stone Wall. He joins me for this discussion. VG: In a reading from StressHacked—recounting your entire chapter “Strategic Task Sequencing: When to Eat […]
The Saturday Exhale Episode. 11: Why Toxic Positivity Makes You Fragile
Alex Tarnava on Schopenhauer, toxic optimism, suffering, and whether we can rewrite the meaning of the past. Vadim Gershteyn, PhD, MPH served as my editor for StressHacked and contributed writing to my upcoming book The Stone Wall. He joins me for this discussion. VG: It was Carl Jung who stated, “As far as we can […]
The Saturday Exhale Episode 10: On The Wellness Science Olympiad and ‘Thinking For Oneself’
Alex Tarnava on the Wellness Science Olympiad, thinking for oneself, and intellectual sovereignty. Vadim Gershteyn, PhD, MPH served as my editor for StressHacked and contributed writing to my upcoming book The Stone Wall. He joins me for this discussion. VG: On Nov 5-8th, in Palm Beach, Florida, Molecular Hydrogen Institute will be organizing the Wellness […]
The Saturday Exhale Episode 9: Why Money is Mental Armor
Alex Tarnava on money, purpose, manufactured scarcity, and why Financial sovereignty is ultimately about clarity Vadim Gershteyn, PhD, MPH served as my editor for StressHacked and contributed writing to my upcoming book The Stone Wall. He joins me for this discussion. VG: In a reading from Chapter 10 of StressHacked: The Mind, “Money As Mental […]
The Saturday Exhale Episode 8: Why Time Is Not Linear
Alex Tarnava on time as an exponential force, chaos vs. control, and why acting now reshapes everything that follows. Vadim Gershteyn, PhD, MPH served as my editor for StressHacked and contributed writing to my upcoming book The Stone Wall. He joins me for this discussion. VG: In a reading from StressHacked: The Mind, where you […]
The Saturday Exhale Episode 7: What It Means To Know (And Not Know) Our Purpose
Alex Tarnava on Millennial irony, Gen Z absurdity, and the quiet rebellion of building meaning from nothing. Vadim Gershteyn, PhD, MPH served as my editor for StressHacked and contributed writing to my upcoming book The Stone Wall. He joins me for this discussion. VG: In a reading from StressHacked, where you read the whole of […]
The Saturday Exhale Episode 6: What Dostoevsky Teaches Us About Human Nature
Alex Tarnava on the “stone wall,” scientism, hardship, and the limits to our ability we cannot simply wish away. Vadim Gershteyn, PhD, MPH served as my editor for StressHacked and contributed writing to my upcoming book The Stone Wall. He joins me for this discussion. VG: “Understanding this hurts, and it should hurt,” you state […]
The Saturday Exhale Episode 5: Why Nietzsche is Warning Us About Nihilism With His Declaration “God is Dead”
Alex Tarnava on Friedrich Nietzsche’s ambiguous warning against nihilism, the true meaning of the Ubermensch, and how to understand (or rather not understand) life by living at its margins. Vadim Gershteyn, PhD, MPH served as my editor for StressHacked and contributed writing to my upcoming book The Stone Wall. He joins me for this discussion. […]
The Saturday Exhale Episode 4:Why Public Intellectuals Get Human Nature Wrong
Alex Tarnava breaks down the taxonomy behind public intellectuals and why both sides miss something essential. Vadim Gershteyn, PhD, MPH served as my editor for StressHacked and contributed writing to my upcoming book The Stone Wall. He joins me for this discussion. VG: It was Richard Rorty who stated something like, “The sign of a […]
