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EP 456: Reprogramming Our Source Code
Jan 16, 2024
Explore the outdated mental code we operate on, how beliefs shape reality, and the impact on work-life balance. Dive into parental anxiety, gender roles, decision-making, and reprogramming beliefs for better productivity.
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- Our brains rely on outdated heuristics causing automatic associations, highlighting the importance of reprogramming mental shortcuts.
- Beliefs shape our reality and perceptions, influencing behaviors like the supermom archetype, emphasizing the need for challenging ingrained beliefs.
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Heuristics and the Parental System
Our brains rely on heuristics, mental shortcuts, to process information quickly. In the case of the podcast, the speaker describes how their parental system heuristic causes an automatic association between a notification about insufficient funds and scenarios of their child being in danger. This heuristic is an artifact of a time before cell phones, when the lack of funds could lead to being stranded without a way to contact home. Despite having technology that allows instant communication and tracking, the speaker's anxiety-inducing line of code, or belief, hasn't been reprogrammed.
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