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Ten Thousand Spoons

Episode 15 of the Bewildered podcast, hosted by Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan, titled "Ten Thousand Spoons" was published on November 3, 2021 and runs 55 minutes.

November 3, 2021 ·55m · Bewildered

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Some of us have plenty of energy to meet every cultural demand, but most of us have less. Enter Spoon Theory, Christine Miserandino’s brilliant analogy in which every action we take costs us a unit of energy represented by a spoon.

Some of us have plenty of energy to meet every cultural demand, but most of us have less. Enter Spoon Theory, Christine Miserandino’s brilliant analogy in which every action we take costs us a unit of energy represented by a spoon. Our culture is invested in what Ro and Martha call “Spoon Privilege,” whereby people who naturally have a lot of energy (or “spoons”) tend to set the standard that comes to be considered normal.

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