How Margin Prevents Collapse

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Jun 13, 2026 · 32m

Most of us live exactly at our means — financially, temporally, emotionally — leaving zero room for the unexpected. This episode explores the concept of margin: the space between our load and our limits. Drawing on research from physician Richard Swenson, Harvard psychologist Ashley Whillans, and the scarcity work of Mullainathan and Shafir, we examine why a lack of margin makes us brittle, less generous, and cognitively depleted. We break down how to build margin across four domains — financial, time, emotional, and relational — and why treating unplanned capacity as a non-negotiable line…