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The Odysseus myth highlights a key feature of behavior change: Recounting our experiences gives us mastery over them. Whether in the context of psychotherapy, talking to an AA sponsor, confessing to a priest, confiding in a friend, or writing in a journal, our honest disclosure brings our behavior into relief, allowing us in some cases to see it for the first time. This is especially true for behaviors that involve a level of automaticity outside of conscious awareness.
Dopamine Nation
Anna Lembke
If I haven’t said it enough, seeking community is a core driving force for me. When you’re working on a series, you get that feeling—big time. During that time, other opportunities arose to segue into features or take an executive role at a network, but I always turned them down. I was comfortable where I was. I’m lucky in a million different ways, up to and including the fact that the group of creatives with whom I’ve long been associated has allowed me to enjoy both continuity and longevity. When a series ended, several of us would wind up working together on another project, which mitigated the sadness of seeing something we had put our hearts and souls into come to a close. In a lot of ways, it was like being a part of a traveling circus. We each did our own act while playing off of one another, juggling the same projects simultaneously. It was always a wonderful mix of new and exciting, familiar and comfortable.
Right for the Role
John Frank Levey
In a rare interview with the Middle East Economic Survey, Al-Naimi said that Saudi production costs are no more than $5 per barrel, and that marginal costs of development are “at most” $10 per barrel. As 2014 drew to a close, estimates were that it cost U.S. frackers as much as five times that to get a barrel out. “Is it reasonable for a highly efficient producer to reduce output, while the producer of poor efficiency continues to produce?” asked Al-Naimi. “That is crooked logic. If I reduce, what happens to my market share? The price will go up and the Russians, the Brazilians, U.S. shale oil producers will take my share.” Al-Naimi and OPEC thus came to the decision to leave production levels where they were.
Saudi America
Bethany McLean
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