Episode Details

Every Sukkot, central Jerusalem fills with pilgrims — tens of thousands at the Western Wall, a record 8,690 Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, and locals who can't cross their own neighborhoods. This episode asks whether there's a skill for living inside a tourist epicenter, drawing on New Yorkers who share their streets with 60 million visitors a year. The answers are partial: avoidance works and has a name, reappraisal is genuinely trainable, and some residents face physical hazards no mindset can reframe. Also: what density does to the brain — and why the same environment that frays attention may also sharpen memory. Episode #172690 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/172690