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The Hidden Cost of Optimizing Everything

aired Jul 10, 2026 · 45.0m
Signal
63.4/ 100
Mixed
confidence 0.99
Orig56.5
Actn83.0
Dens61.3
Dpth46.0
Clty65.2
Summary

I'm Carla Lolly, cookbook author and snack enthusiast. Check out Sweets Unwrapped, a podcast from Ferrero and Atlantic Rethink, the Atlantic's creative marketing studio.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, know, including: Do you have a sweet tooth?.

Key takeaways
  1. 01So the satisfaction test is like you put your hands on your hips and you look at something you've done and you think, oh, yeah, that was a good podcast I just recorded
  2. 02So the sound of my voice in your ears right now, or the feeling of a warm mug as you hold it in the morning full of coffee, or the texture of the shirt on my body when I touch it,
  3. 03A Stanford psychologist named Walter Mischel and some of his colleagues and then successors began running a series of experiments on young children
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