Understanding the brain - Lisa Feldman Barrett

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is for anyone who is curious about how human's tick. Work ultimately is a practice of the brain and how our brain processes and reacts to things is a fascination to me.

I have a friend who is studying neuroscience and a couple of years ago at someone's wedding I was chatting to him and said 'who should I be reading?' and he said the best voice in the field was a psychologist called Lisa Feldman Barrett. Sure enough I looked her up and her book How Emotions Are Made was dazzling and brilliant. it covers themes of understanding emotions.

One of the things that Lisa believes is that we don' t arrive programmed with emotions, we learn them along the way. The more emotions we're taught to understand the more we can feel. In her book she says people who read fiction books and learn to appreciate nuance of emotion end up feeling a wider range of emotions. She has a new book out. How Emotions Are Made is several hundred pages and her new book 7.5 Lessons About the Brain is much shorter and is very accessible. So if you're looking for a simple explainer about the brain it is a brilliant summary (I have disclose I way preferred the first book).

Along the way you're going to discover that no your dog isn't capable of feeling guilt, we talk about the test (that was in a previous episode) called the Reading The Mind in the Eyes test.

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0:00.0	This is Bruce Haysley.
0:05.0	This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat.
0:09.0	A podcast about making work better.
0:12.0	Hello, how you doing, this is Bruce Dasely first a shout out if you're interested in work or how it's evolving
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0:35.2	and just to give you a sort of sense of what that's like,
0:37.6	last week's newsletter, alongside a whole load of articles
0:41.2	that you might have missed about work, remote work, motivation,
0:45.2	all that stuff. There was a piece about computer games. And I found myself sort of
0:50.5	about a week ago reading something that's sort of become the Bible of the
0:55.3	computer games design industry. So if you think about computer games, people play
0:59.2	computer games for hours on end for no extrinsic reward.
1:04.0	Right, you're not paid to play computer games.
1:07.0	And other than what the game intrinsically offers them,
1:10.0	there's nothing in it for people.
1:12.0	It just means that the people who design computer games
1:15.0	need to really understand human motivation
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