Mervosh: The Subconscious Need to Produce Governs the Modern Psyche
Michael Mervosh · Michael Mervosh - Investing in Yourself During a Crisis (Capital Allocators, EP.134) · Apr 27, 2020 · at 7:23
Clinical psychologist Michael Mervosh discusses the psychological impact of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on Capital Allocators with Ted Seides.
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“There's also a part of a lot of us who are learning for the first time that for all of our lives up until now, in the background of our culture and therefore of our psyches, what's always running is the economy. And what the economy says is you get to work and you get to work and you produce. And when you produce, you be successful and you have realized the American dream. There's a part of the psyche that it just lives that no matter what. But then when the whole economy stops and people realize I'm more okay than I thought I would be. And in sheltering in place, I have space, not time, but space where I'm not actually confined. I'm actually free and I'm not driven. And again, I don't want to lay that all on an economy, but I think that's a significant psychic force to drive, to make money, to provide.”
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