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Rufus Griskam: This week, a guided tour of your brain with Lisa Feldman-Barrick. She's a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and has appointments at Harvard Medical School in Mass General. Her new book Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is an entertaining users manual for that befuddling blob between our ears. We wanted to create new ways for readers to discover incredible ideas. I hope you think so too.

If you managed to stay awake during Bio 101, then you probably think you have a basic understanding of how your brain works. Not so, says neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett. In this cerebral yet highly entertaining conversation with Next Big Idea Club curator Daniel Pink, Lisa says our brains are made for budgeting, not thinking. She debunks the myth of the lizard brain. And she makes the far-out claim that everything you see and hear, including this podcast, is a hallucination.