How to Reconstruct Your Beliefs

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'I had to look at the neurological and cognitive evidence what's going on, because i have so many sorts now i have to explain it. Because if you can’t explain it nerologically and you can't explain it cognitively, then what you have is a pop syce book in a self help book,' he says. 'This happens to all of us, and happens to us regularly.' He adds: 'Because the really good ones, like that one, they're so sinless and so, ah, yes, it happens to me. It happens to everybody'.

Not all surprises trigger change, but almost all change is triggered by surprise. In this episode, Micheal Rousell, author of The Power of Surprise, explains the science of surprise at the level of neurons and brain structures, and then talk about how surprises often lead to the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, the different personal narratives that guide our behaviors and motivations and goals, and, perhaps most importantly, our willingness to be surprised again so that we can change and grow.

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