{
  "id": 18161490,
  "title": "Is our obsession with controlling our lives making us unhappy?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/is-our-obsession-with-controlling-our-lives-making-us-unhappy",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-04T18:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Scientist",
    "slug": "new-scientist",
    "url": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/2596746-is-our-addiction-to-controlling-our-lives-making-us-unhappy/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Anna Lembke's thought-provoking book Radical Surrender argues that we are obsessed with dictating every event in our lives, and that we need to realise we can't control everything. David Robson takes stock",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}