How to Calm Your Mind

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First heard3 June 2026
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6: Sparky’s AI Email Odyssey

Intentional AI, 12 August 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 48 min 4 sec in.

Chris Bailey describes using Claude with the plain text of all four of his books as context. He gives How to Calm Your Mind as a specific example, explaining that he used Claude to recall details of a caffeine-elimination experiment he documented in the book—including how long withdrawal symptoms lasted—finding he can retrieve things from his own writing by querying the AI.

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3: Context is King

Intentional AI, 1 July 2026. The book comes up at 38 min 26 sec in.

Chris Bailey, initially reluctant to name the source ("I'll allow myself one plug-in episode"), is prompted by his co-host and identifies How to Calm Your Mind as the book in which he interviewed Dr. Christina Maslach, described as probably the world's foremost burnout researcher. He relays Maslach's finding that burnout requires three simultaneous components—exhaustion, cynicism, and a sense of inefficacy—not exhaustion alone.

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1: Anyone Can Cook

Intentional AI, 3 June 2026. Said by Chris. It comes up in passing.

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