How Much Control Do We Really Have Over Our Lives? with Robert Sapolsky | Align Podcast #518

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

We dive into the mind of Robert Sapolsky, renowned neuroscientist, primatologist, and author, as he unpacks some of today’s most challenging questions about human nature, choice, and resilience. With over 30 years of research on baboons and human behavior, Sapolsky brings a unique lens to questions about free will, the effects of stress, and how trauma can reverberate through generations.

OUR GUEST

Robert M. Sapolsky is the author of several works of nonfiction, including A Primate’s Memoir, The Trouble with Testosterone, and Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. His most recent book, Behave, was a New York Times bestseller and named a best book of the year by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.” He and his wife live in San Francisco.

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ABOUT

Aaron Alexander is a pioneering manual therapist and movement coach with over 5 years experience. He is the founder and creator of The Align Method, author of The Align Method book, and host of The Align Podcast which has ranked #1 in Nutrition on Apple Podcasts.

Aaron has worked with some of the world’s greatest professional athletes, performers, and celebrities to help relieve pain, improve strength, better flexibility, and ease the mind and body.

On this channel, Aaron interviews renowned experts in a range of fields focused on improving the mind and body. This mind and body podcast will teach you all that you need to know to become the healthiest version of yourself by integrating simplified ancient techniques and the foundational principles of The Align Method to strengthen your body, balance the mind, and activate healing systems in daily life.

The mission? To be the best personal growth podcast about healthy habits, redefine functional movement, and make fitness who you are; not what you do.

TOPICS

1. Free Will and Determinism

2. Multigenerational Trauma and Epigenetics

3. Acute Stress and Chronic Stress

4. The Biology of Hierarchies and Social Behavior

5. Compassion and Justice without Judgment

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together
0:05.0	the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body,
0:08.8	and movement. Today's conversations with a guest that I have been aspiring to have on the podcast
0:13.3	for the last decade since we started the podcast. He is someone that I have been looking up to and
0:17.9	reading and observing more far for the last 20 plus years.
0:21.3	He is the author of many bestselling books.
0:24.6	The most seminal of the books would probably be why Zuber's Don't Get Ulcers.
0:28.3	Also the author of the most recent Determined Behave, a Primates Memoir.
0:34.9	I have read or listened to most all of his books, at least the ones that I just
0:39.5	mentioned. I recommend all them to you. This is mostly today about why zebras don't get ulcers
0:44.3	as well as determined and a little bit from the book Behave. A really tremendous human being. He is
0:50.6	a professor at Stanford. He's a neuroscientist. He's a primatologist.
0:54.9	He has spent 33 years or seasons rather living in East Africa with baboons.
1:01.4	We get into some conversation around that.
1:03.0	We get into conversation between free will and determinism.
1:08.0	The difference between acute and chronic stress and a lot.
1:12.1	I'm really genuinely just, I feel so incredibly privileged to get to have a conversation
1:15.9	with someone of the caliber of Dr. Sapolsky.
1:19.0	He's literally been on my short list of people that I've wanted to talk to on this podcast
1:23.7	for the last 10 or 11 years or however long we've been doing this.
1:27.2	So I'm grateful to share this with you.
1:28.4	I think you guys can really love it.
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