Two out of three men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone with their own thoughts for 15 minutes. That's a real experiment. Psychologists at the University of Virginia ran it back in 2014. They put people in an empty room with no phone and nothing to do but think. The only thing in there was a button that zapped them. Each person had already tried the shock beforehand and said they'd pay money to avoid feeling it again. A quarter of the women pressed it anyway, two thirds of the men did, and one guy hit it 190 times in 15 minutes. So picture this guy. He makes pottery in a tiny Yorkshire village, in a studio with no phone signal. He doesn't listen to podcasts or music, and the radio only comes on once in a while. That's basically the shock experiment, except his version lasts the whole workday. His friend asked what goes through his head all day and he said "well, pots mostly." I'm pretty sure most of us would be hunting for that button before lunch. The same researchers stumbled onto what fixes it. When they gave people boring hands-on stuff to do, people liked that way more than sitting there thinking. Their best guess is that a mind with nothing to work on starts chewing on itself, replaying old arguments and running through everything you're bad at. A couple of Harvard psychologists later measured how often that happens in real life. They pinged 2,250 people through an iPhone app at random times and asked what they were doing and whether their mind was on it. People's minds were somewhere else 46.9% of the time they were awake. Whether their head was actually in what they were doing predicted their mood better than the activity itself, and daydreaming about nice stuff didn't even help. Clay is pretty much built to keep your head in it. You feel what it's doing through your fingers the whole time. Use too much water and a wall slumps on you. Let a pot sit too long and it dries past the point where you can trim it, so the clay ends up setting your schedule for you. Your phone pulls the other way. Gloria Mark at UC Irvine has been timing how long people stay on one screen for about 20 years, and it's dropped from around two and a half minutes in 2004 to 47 seconds. When something knocks you off a task, her data says it takes about 25 minutes on average to get back to it. So "pots mostly" is about as good an answer as the research says a person can give. His head and his hands are on the same thing all day. Two thirds of the men in that lab hit the shock button rather than spend 15 minutes alone with their thoughts, and this guy spends his whole workday in there with nothing but a lump of clay to keep him company.

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The NFL and the Philadelphia Eagles almost killed Jalen Hurts for a Week 5 international showcase. ​The full details of what happened behind closed doors in London just surfaced, and the negligence is staggering. ​Before kickoff in London, Hurts was in a hospital bed until 4:00 AM undergoing emergency vascular testing. Medical staff instructed him not to sleep because sleep was considered an active health risk. ​Instead of shutting down their $255 million franchise quarterback, the team cleared him to play 60 minutes of brutal, high-impact collision football on zero sleep. ​Then, they loaded him onto a pressurized, 8-hour transatlantic flight back to Philadelphia. ​Every doctor on the planet knows that long-haul flights and cabin pressure are the exact triggers that cause lower-extremity blood clots to break free. The Eagles spent days assuring the public it was just a "minor, superficial calf clot". ​Now the truth comes out: the clot dislodged, shot through his bloodstream, and caused multiple pulmonary emboli in his lungs. ​Hurts is officially out for the season, placed on blood thinners where taking a single routine tackle could cause a fatal internal hemorrhage. ​He isn't just lucky to play football again, he is lucky to be alive. ​When the NFL preaches "player safety," remember this moment. They ran a human being into the ground for television ratings in the UK, almost lost him to a preventable medical catastrophe, and cratered their entire season in the process. ​Who inside that building signed off on letting him play and board that flight?

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