Why You’re In A Rut: The Need for Novelty

In this episode, we talk about feeling dead inside! 😃 And about being introverts, social distancing, getting out of a rut, and what all of this has to do with evolution. If you want to laugh at folks who are still social distancing and wearing masks in indoor public spaces, boy have we got the episode for you!Topics include:the TV shows Yellowstone, 1883, and 1923the sexual and non-sexual meaning of “rut”feeling resistance to getting out of a rutthe connection between variety and well-beingthe famous Rat Park experiments on addictionwhat our own Teeny Tiny experiments in variety have looked like so farhow our desire for variety comes from the same place as the drives for food and sexwhy it makes spiritual sense for variety to feel goodPodcast episode show notes: https://sienaandtoast.com/podcast/150Find Siena and Toast on Instagram https://instagram.com/sienaandtoastLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sienaandtoast.substack.com