Soleme: How much of our consumption is because we're comparing ourselves to the joneses or cardasians? Almost all of it. Studies show that after a certain income, one's sense of life and of fulfilment in life does not go up. It doesn't go up with income menom. We diminish the idea that it's a community by calling it a trailer park. But the same thing happened in the slums of london. They seemed to be poor, and they were in some regards materially, but they weren't poor in terms of the connections that they had with each other. And so i think that that, again, is a lesson. I mean
On this episode we meet with psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and author Peter Whybrow.
Whybrow gives us an overview of why humans tend to consume excessively in resource-abundant societies. Why is it difficult for humans to change our ways?
Additionally, Whybrow shares pathways for humans to move toward having a well-tuned brain.
About Peter Whybrow:
Peter C. Whybrow, M.D. is Director Emeritus of the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Judson Braun Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, and author of several books, including his newest, The Well-Tuned Brain: Neuroscience and the Life Well-Lived.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/26-peter-whybrow