How The Psychology of Time is Warped by Media and Novelty — Neuroscience Of

Tom Womsgams, the fictional television executive in HBO’s Succession had a long history of embarassing moments. The shy kid from Minnesota often found himself out of place in the jaws of corporate America, struggling to balance his personal ambition with his complicated relationship with his wife, Shiv, the daughter of his boss. But his genius comes in unexpected, unintended ways. In one memorable scene, he finds himself unprepared for a presentation at an important conference. In typical Tom awkwardness, he says, “The news is.. all things that are new. All the many news. The news” The audience is dumbstruck, unimpressed, and confused. Offstage, Shiv, a polished communicator at ease in the corporate world, shudders in embarrassment. On its face, it feels like another installment of Tom’s corpus of embarrassment. However, if we take a deeper look at this comment outside this context, it contains a key insight: it’s the media’s job to tell us what is new.  In other words, media is in the

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