Podcasts that mention 📚 Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wegner was directly inspired by a moment from Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 'Winter Notes on Summer Impressions,' one of his non-fiction pieces. Dostoevsky writes, 'Try to pose for yourself this task, not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.' Wegner was intrigued by this idea, prompting him to build an experiment around it.

During a fact-check segment, the podcast host discusses Dostoevsky's 'Winter Notes on Summer Impressions,' highlighting how it inspired Dan Wegner's study on intrusive thoughts, specifically the concept about the challenges of not thinking of a polar bear.

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but the problem with that kind of thinking i suppose too is that this is dostoyevsky raised this in notes from underground it's a great short book and he created short

Jordan Peterson mentions the book and author, recommending it and discussing its themes.

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