Pain Nerd 🤝 Pain Nerd

Join me and Leigh Cowart tomorrow at 7pm EST

Last month, I wrote about Leigh Cowart’s Hurts So Good: The Science & Culture of Pain on Purpose. This month, Leigh invited me to talk a little shop with them, promote our books, and ask the big questions about why so many of us actually like the big hurty.

Why do people engage in masochism? What are the benefits: social, psychological, physiological, and otherwise? What are the costs? What does masochism have to say about the human experience? Cowart unveils how our minds and bodies are engineered to find meaning and relief in pain-a quirk in our programming that drives discipline and innovation even as it threatens to swallow us whole.

I learned a lot from Leigh’s book, and look forward to nerding out with them. Register here to join us. See you tomorrow!

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