When you're in a deficit, your brain stops doing things that are the most expensive. It makes it really hard to interact with people who are different from you and learn from them. Democracy is complicated. It means compromise. It means considering lots of different perspectives,. Even ones you don't like very much. And it means compromising sometimes. So phasically, democracy requires the ability to tolerate a brief withdrawal from your body budget.
Lisa is a Neuroscientist, psychologist, and author of the books "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain" and "How Emotions are Made". We talk about:
- How expressing your emotions can help you control them
- Why democracy might not be great for brain's body budgeting
- Brain myths that deserve to die
- The replication crisis in Psychology
- And MUCH MORE!
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