How To Take the Pressure Off and Live Well, with Claudia Hammond (Part Two)

如何释放压力,享受美好生活,与克劳迪娅·汉德姆(第二部分)

Intelligence Squared

2026-01-23

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Do you feel as if there is often too much to do in too little time? We are all familiar with overwhelm – an unsettling sense that it is just impossible to keep up with the demands of everyday life. In January 2026 Claudia Hammond – psychologist, award-winning writer and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind – came to the Intelligence Squared stage to share her scientific insights into how we can all live better and avoid fatigue. Drawing from her new book, Overwhelmed, she provided a practical toolkit, using the best evidence from psychology and neuroscience, to offer strategies to help us tackle procrastination, imposter syndrome, perfectionism and more. --- If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full ad free conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events  ...  Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.

  • I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.

  • For this episode,

  • we're rejoining for part two of our recent live event with psychologist and broadcaster Claudia Hammond.

  • Hammond joined us recently at the Kiln Theatre to share practical strategies from her new book,

  • Overwhelmed,

  • from tackling procrastination and imposter syndrome to loosening the grip of perfectionism and finding ways to live well in a world that often feels relentless.

  • She was in conversation with Dr.

  • Radha Modgo.

  • If you haven't heard part one, we recommend jumping back an episode to get up to speed.

  • But now let's return to the discussion live from the Kiln Theatre in London.

  • I want to move on I suppose now to one area I think of everyone's life which always feels overwhelming but possibly even more so now it's the way we work and you know more people working from home you know work going on 24 hours a day people working across different time zones and how do we kind of find our boundaries and how do we stop or reduce the feeling of overwhelm from work.

  • And I think definitely tech has made it harder when it comes to work because,

  • and obviously lots of people work from home now, some of the time at least, or maybe all the time.

  • And those boundaries between home and work can start to blur.

  • And from the research that started being done when people started working from home during the pandemic,

  • people were often inclined to,

  • it shows that to carry on working because there was no why stop at a particular moment,

  • at least if you've got your journey home and the end you've got to go.

  • out in the rain and get that train and get home and so it a kind of can force you to stop whereas