Everything Harder Than Everyone Else Valentish Jenny
There is a part of human nature compelled to test our own limits. But what happens when this part comes to define us?When journalist Jenny Valentish wrote Woman of Substances, a book about addiction,…
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There is a part of human nature compelled to test our own limits. But what happens when this part comes to define us?When journalist Jenny Valentish wrote Woman of Substances, a book about addiction, she noticed that people who treated drug-taking like an Olympic sport would often hurl themselves into a pursuit like marathon running upon giving up. What stayed constant was the need to push their boundaries.Everything Harder Than Everyone Else follows people doing the things that most couldn't, wouldn't or shouldn't. By delving into their extreme behaviour, there's a lot that us mere mortals can learn about the human condition.There's the neuroscientist violating his brain to override his disgust response. The athlete using childhood adversity as grist for the mill. The wrestler turning restlessness into curated ultraviolence. The architect hanging from hooks in her
Theory of Everything Else
Theory of Everything Else