Harnessing the Power of Expectations for Well-being and Performance

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Exploring how expectations can influence our experiences and offering strategies to optimize well-being and performance, including reframing anxiety as readiness and utilizing placebo effects. It also delves into pain reprocessing theory for chronic pain relief, while acknowledging its limitations.

Most of us believe that what we see is what’s really there. But new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology have turned this assumption upside down. What if rather than perceiving reality passively, your mind actively predicts it? That's what Andy Clark argues in today's episode.