The “Last Man on Earth” Trap: Why Women Stay With Men Who Aren’t Right For Them
By Nathan Gershfeld, co-host of the Beat Your Genes Podcast, Episode 4 If you are four or five months into a relationship and something feels off, but you can’t bring yourself to leave, you are not broken. You are running a Stone Age algorithm that is doing exactly what it was designed to do, in […]
What Is the Goal of Life? Why Dr. Doug Lisle Says It’s Not Happiness
By Nathan Gershfeld, co-host of the Beat Your Genes Podcast, Episode 1 Ten years ago, I picked up a book called The Pleasure Trap, and it rearranged how I thought about almost everything. The book made a claim that sounded obvious on the surface but turned out to be radical underneath it: pleasure and happiness […]
Why Do People Have Affairs? What Dr. Doug Lisle Actually Says
By Nathan Gershfeld, co-host of the Beat Your Genes Podcast One of our listeners recently sent in a question that I think a lot of people quietly wonder about but rarely say out loud. She had been happily married for over 15 years, had no evidence her husband had ever been unfaithful, and yet she […]