E156 | How Should We Prepare for the Future? (feat. the Examined Life Podcast)

This week Alex presents his conversation on the Examined Life podcast with Kenneth Primrose. 

Alex discusses the more troubling aspects of modern life, and how we might prepare for an uncertain future. The question which formed the spine of our conversation was ‘ In a world where technology has been quite disruptive psychologically for a lot of people, how do we prepare for an increasingly technological future?

This conversation examines how modern technology reshapes attention, confidence, morality and meaning, and Alex offers practical tips for staying human as machines grow more capable. Among the topics explored you will find:

• Tech-driven overstimulation dulling joy and focus
• Confidence built through voluntary discomfort
• Psychiatry and psychotherapy as complementary lenses
• Intolerance of uncertainty and stoic control
• Integrity, congruence and moral habits 
• Social skills as a proactive practice
• AI as tool versus thinking crutch
• Career durability through uncommon skill combinations
• Financial resilience vs consumerist drift
• Community as the container for lasting change

You can check out The Examined Life on Apple, Spotify and every major podcast platform:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-examined-life/id1680728280

https://open.spotify.com/show/1QaEmvYjKVmMg3LZVpq0qS?trackId=1rJaiv1oQkEL0DdBoKarPA

Dr. Alex Curmi is a consultant psychiatrist and a UKCP registered psychotherapist in-training.

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Alex is not currently taking on new psychotherapy clients, if you are interested in working with Alex for focused behaviour change coaching , you can email - [email protected] with "Coaching" in the subject line.

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