Modern Wisdom

#376 - Beau Lotto - The Neuroscience Of Awe, Distraction and Anxiety

Sep 25, 2021

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Are You a Sand Bar?

04:28

What Are the Fundamental Elements of Leadership?

04:24

Optimism as Measured

04:54

Introduction

4min

Your Brain Just Can't Deal With It

3min

The Night Club in a Clarkenwell Prison

4min

The Night Club Experiment

5min

Skin in the Game Is a Sign of Authenticity

6min

What Does Awe Do?

3min

Are You a Sand Bar?

4min

The Other Side of All Dread

4min

Is Silence the Most Important Source of Noise?

3min

10.

What's Happening Inside Our Brains?

3min

11.

Isasef, You Have a Physical Ailment?

2min

12.

Uncertainty Is Your Specialist Subject?

3min

13.

Is Your Perception Intelligent?

2min

14.

Do You Have the Desire to Have Awareness?

2min

15.

What's the Beauty of Action Behavior?

2min

16.

The Beautiful Quest Is Where the Cash Is

2min

17.

Optimism as Measured

5min

18.

You're Steel Man. That's What You Want

6min

19.

Can You Cultivate That Desire?

2min

20.

What Are the Fundamental Elements of Leadership?

4min

21.

Are There Three Primary Roots to Success?

5min

22.

Are You Competent?

3min

23.

The Power of Home and Chronic Pain

3min

24.

Do You Have a Lab Misfit?

2min

Beau Lotto is is a professor of Neuroscience at the University of London and an author.

Beau is the founder of the Lab Of Misfits which he describes as "lunatic fringe neuroscience". He's created nightclubs in his lab where every action people take is measured, he's locked people in dark rooms and waited to see what happens and he's got actors to have a fit on the floor to observe how people respond.

Expect to learn the neuroscience of why awe makes us feel so connected to the world around us, how donating a lot of money to charity can turn off that girl you're trying to impress, why unanswered questions cause so much anxiety, how distraction occurs in our brains and much more...

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