A Truly Epic Sense of Denial

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

I'm one of the disabled people Grey means where "health" takes up a lot of time. I don't know whether Grey will ever read this, but I'd really like to encourage him and other people in similar situations to think of resting as an investment in having more energy in the future. Right now your body is forcing you to rest, because you absolutely must. You are seeing that as wasted time. It isn't, it is absolutely necessary downtime for system repairs. Your body needs to rest so that it can recover. Time spent resting is positive time put towards improving your health, like exercise was before you got sick. If you allow yourself to rest, and don't immediately push yourself to work as hard as possible, you will start to get more energy. As you start to get more energy, build up the amount of activity you do /very slowly/. More slowly than you want to. Being patient and persistent in resting is an investment in continuing increase your health.

[@hectichive889]

I really like the way you put that. It makes a lot of sense to me and why a lot of people seem to get burnt out so often. I’m gonna save this for sure lol

[@Pandahluvr]

i had that brain not talking to my lungs thing after a really bad respiratory infection before covid happened. it took a long while to, in a sense, trust my body to let myself breathe properly. i would have to calm myself down and practice deep breathing. also babystepping cardio exercises helped.

[@henkfinkers3931]

COVID is a weird lottery and if you get "lucky" you suffer badly from it. I stayed clear of it for a long time but I still got it it around the delta / omicron time. I am young, not overweight, reasonably fit and fully vaccinated and boosted. I got it at a party where everyone was tested except for one girl (which we didn't know at the time). The next day she tested positive and I started self-isolating. The next day I felt fine. The day after that I had a slight headache but I didn't think too much of it as headaches happen all the time and I kept testing negative. I was a bit sickish on the day after that but I still managed to work (not very well though). The day after that I had a head-splitting headache. I couldn't look at screens and I tested positive. This started a week of coughing, sleeping, eating and more sleeping to keep the headache away. After walking up the stairs I had to sit down as I was just shattered. After my quarantine period and I started feeling better (a week after testing positive) I still struggled and was quick to tire and coughed all the time (my lungs felt like they were full of gunk). I wanted to go shopping by bike but I just couldn't make it to the shops. For a week my lungs still burned if I biked to work or the supermarket. A week more and my stamina was still rubbish. After another week I started feeling normal again and wouldn't get tired that easily. The fact that I was not in a risk group and felt the sickest I have ever felt tells me that people who claim it is just a cold clearly don't know what they are talking about.

[@moonycanwatch]

I’ve been having a mental health crisis while also having my term finals and CGP Grey has been my comfort channel to cope with. Ran out of his videos so came here and I’m glad to find this

[@OuryLN]

“The” or should we say “a” Me, Myke centered episode. I initially listened to CORTEX due to Grey’s participation since I enjoy his neurotic, possibly, psychotic, overly obsessive ramblings, much like the ramblings of those who “notice” someone or something wrong on or in the Internet. But I now also enjoy Myke.

[@akabga]

I was really getting worried about you. Glad to hear you’re clearing the woods.

[@fionafiona1146]

51:00 didn't the NHS publish on the case of a woman testing positive for 70 days straight? It's common enough of an occurrence, I feel it's mentioned as rarely as covid disrupting bowl movement/causing stomach ache.

[@volodyadykun6490]

32:55 the book "After Steve", about Minecraft 2

[@DistanceTraveled]

May your trend line be increasing positively towards recovery and the covid test results stay negative. I have not had covid yet, but before covid, I have had Mono 2x and I developed some crazy food allergies which have completely changed how I have to work. The inching of 1% per day when previously the 10% would be just one day just hit me hard. Work one day to have 2 days of recovery. And brainfog. As an academic during my medical times and still, it is hard because I have learned that in case I get brainfog I literally have to have everything written down because my brain just won't remember anymore at any time I need to remember something. I am currently deciding between going back for my PhD to become a permanent academic versus finding a "real job", but if I do go for a PhD, Obsidian is going to be my tool to serve as my literature manager so I can write that dissertation. Regardless, I have found it most beneficial for my mental health to evaluate my productivity not against my optimum self, but against my current self's capacity for that day.

[@Dribbleondo]

Oh no! Hope you're all okay!

[@Lisa_Simpson_]

Hope you’ll get better soon Grey!

[@vidamate09]

Those hammer jeans are called Carpenter Jeans 😎👉🏾 Also Grey, it sounds like you need a high level storyboarder.

[@agenericaccount3935]

Hundred percent success rate 😄 Can't wait for the Animated on this one.

[@CyberKirby]

grey caught the scotichronicon variant

[@pezvonpez]

_sigh_ okay, what's the... scotchichronicon?

[@kamewantor4594]

I'm too much into chastity to adequately comprehend this vids title

[@runawayshay6409]

Everyone gets stuck in a Texas airport at some point. Or every time they have a connecting flight there.

[@MeTalkPrettyOneDay]

That graph type Myke was talking about is e^x*sinx for my fellow nerds

[@tomfoolery5680]

I caught Covid at the end of January. Not too bad, a bit of a fever and some pretty intense body aches for 2 days and 2 nights. However, I'm afraid im experiencing long term effects. I am lethargic at best and exhausted at worst. I've never been like this, and if anything pretty opposite. I'm 46, male 6'5" and 175 lbs.. I know that may seem to be TMI, but it's just to illustrate a relatively thin build which is usually accompanied with a high, busy metabolism.

[@OuryLN]

Yes, Grey now so sounds human! Hopefully, in the future, his robot brain will take over and give us the Grey we all know and love? Expect. Want. Well you know what I mean!

[@Pikero24]

as an animator grey talking about his process around 1h in hurts me thinking about his collaborators.

[@stephanieparker1250]

Several of my friends have caught it twice as well, it suuuucks :( take it easy, Grey!

[@stephanieparker1250]

I need to see this key set!!

[@ChopTheViking]

Hopefully it’s just me, but this episode still hasn’t showed up in the Apple Podcast feed yet. (As of 2:15pm eastern us on 8/2)

[@Clangdon0148]

You need to update this video title to have a number

[@holden_fella]

Kind of forgot how this feels to listen to guys talk for hours on topics other than the war.

[@evanwilliams1199]

I'm not up to date, what war?

[@holden_fella]

@@evanwilliams1199 You're kidding, right? Russia made a move on Europe, bombed half of Ukraine to pebbles by now. Then there's Serbia-Kosovo war starting up right this moment, China-Taiwan has been brewing steadily over last months, i bet you should have heard about at least some of that.

[@tylerbowerfan7231]

When did they talk about the war?

[@holden_fella]

@@tylerbowerfan7231 Never, i believe.

[@evanwilliams1199]

@@holden_fella Oh, of course I've heard of the russia-ukraine conflict. I thought you mean that Grey and Mike had spoken about the war. It didn't seem like them, talking about world politics. That's why I was confused.

[@OuryLN]

Like in a “b” horror movie at about the 50 to 55 minute count, the monster, Grey, comes in and dominates the rest of the flick.

[@AkiSan0]

oh he is alive! quick question regarding the CPG main channel: whats the reasoning behind the recent renaming/thumbnail changes?

[@fauxpas4589]

See veritasiums video on clickbait. Basically, the algorithm

[@NoriMori1992]

He talked about it on this podcast, I think the previous episode in fact. But maybe that was just on Moretex.

[@TheKobasen]

Mikeburnfire?

[@OuryLN]

So, wen yer gonna finish the highway saga/odyssey?

[@lgpa565]

I hope y'all ok

[@ecb3249]

51:54 to finally find out Lady Grey is ok.

[@eewls]

you gonna tell us what you're drinking tonight?

[@OuryLN]

Cortexans

[@arcticc6288]

Is their another way to listen to you guys like on Spotify?

[@diegodoesstuff86]

How's this have almost 2k views yet almost no comments? Interesting

[@TheJaredtheJaredlong]

"And then I hit her, which is obviously less bad." - CGP Grey

[@soupytho]

time for grey to hire a voice actor

[@OuryLN]

Actually one of the most engaging episodes. Normally I would have switch over to watching cat /HVAC/AmberJDepp videos.

[@aprammus9580]

Lmao

[@calumtosh1438]

Kinda forgot covid existed

[@just_your_localguard9612]

Don't know how since every other week a "breaking news story" talks about infections count. I wished I could forget it tbh, I'm kinda burnt on it

[@calumtosh1438]

@@just_your_localguard9612 in uk they basically don't talk about it

[@just_your_localguard9612]

@@calumtosh1438 dam I wished we were so lucky in states man.

[@zanewonsey9176]

Hello

[@Martcapt]

Internet

[@Purplechairiscool]

Welcome

[@zanewonsey9176]

@@Martcapt exactly 💯

[@sedakame1]

Is there anybody in there? Just knock if you can hear me

[@banano24]

What is this ?...

[@kuriz7004]

A podcast with CGP Grey, (he has a KZbin channel) and Myke Hurly (he’s a friend of CGP Grey I think)

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

This isn't really a typical episode of Cortex. Usually they talk a lot about Apple products, productivity/running a business, and the peculiarities of CGP Grey's brain and working habits.

[@KwassaKwassa_]

Just a few days ago the end of the end of next month I know that 😂😂 a new Zealand UAE I have to be quiet if people want it just seems like a straw and I will be Minecraft Xbox the end of the end of the end of the end

[@SilverScarletSpider]

You should do a video essay and podcast on Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Israel’s human rights abuses

[@Martcapt]

I don't think any of them has anything meaninful to contribute

[@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2]

So, all the controversial things?

[@ethelredhardrede1838]

How did you leave out Russian human rights abuses? Or the United States. That is a odd collection of states you chose. Seems hidden agenda driven.

[@TheGahta]

Yes he really should do a Video on stuff people are really tribal and unreasonable about that has nothing to do with his usual stuff Sounds like a great plan