Why Love Hurts - An Introduction @NotOverthinking
Why Love Hurts - An Introduction  @NotOverthinking
Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In this episode, we discuss a few highlights from “Why Love Hurts” - a book which argues that our relationships go wrong due to 'institutional forces', rather than our dysfunctional childhoods or our insufficiently self-aware psyches (which is the more commonly accepted modern belief).

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Not Overthinking is a podcast about happiness, creativity, and the human condition. We talk about things to help us think, do, and be better. Things like social interaction, lifestyle design, mental models...things that are hard to examine, but important to explore. And hopefully, things that make for a fun and interesting chat every week.

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Ali Abdaal is a junior doctor and YouTuber working in Cambridge, UK. He makes videos about medicine, technology, productivity and lifestyle design.

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Taimur Abdaal is a data scientist and writer, working on his own startup Causal (https://causal.app/). He writes on his blog and as a columnist for Medium.

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