Chris Skidmore
Author and former Minister of State for Health of the United Kingdom
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Aug 11, 2026
The Tension That Transforms Us | with Chris Skidmore
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Vive OldhamHOST
And I'm just really curious to hear from you, like, what is it about myth and this kind of ancient way of knowing that helps us in what we're talking about, which is recalibrating appetite, and desire, and satiety, coming into connection to intuition without being like, "What is wrong with me? Why do I keep doing this?" Like, what is it about myth that helps us with that?

Chris SkidmoreGUEST
Yeah, I guess we probably have to start with the acknowledgement that myth was, I don't know, maybe is diminished as a form, as a, as a sort of way of understanding the world, as we can see by our language that we have, like the myth of something, um, essentially says that it's false.

Chris SkidmoreGUEST
So we've e- we've equated in the, in the collective an idea that myth and falsehood go together, but that's just a myth.

Chris SkidmoreGUEST
And I think that means in the, in the sort of collective it means that it's not factual and not truthful.

Chris SkidmoreGUEST
Um, and I guess that's the sticky territory of myth, in that it is, you know, it's, I've heard it said that it's a lie that reveals the truth.

Chris SkidmoreGUEST
That's really difficult for the modern mind that is so, uh, hell bent on the scientific, and hell bent on, like, let's just get to the bottom of things.
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Special Episode: London Climate Action Week Part 1
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Chris SkidmoreGUEST
Opportunities to demonstrate how efficiency can lead to greater margins for businesses are all superb.

Chris SkidmoreGUEST
And yeah, it's well known from several studies now that the most effective way to deliver policy, I think from a study of 2000 policy initiatives globally, is mandates.
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