10. Mark Epstein (Buddhist Psychotherapist) – Nature/Nurture/Neither
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:04.3 | Not much to it, is there? |
| 0:06.2 | Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:10.9 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:12.9 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:15.8 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:19.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.1 | Hi there, I'm Jason Gottz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast. |
| 0:25.3 | Big Think is an online forum for the world's most interesting thinkers and doers to share their |
| 0:30.4 | ideas on video. |
| 0:32.0 | Since 2008, we've shared over 10,000 of them. |
| 0:35.2 | And on the Think Again podcast, we surprise our guests and me, your host, |
| 0:38.9 | with unexpected clips unearthed from these labyrinthine archives, and then we talk about them. |
| 0:44.0 | I am honored today to be joined by Mark Epstein, psychiatrist and author of many influential |
| 0:48.4 | books about the intersection of Buddhist thought and psychotherapy, including thoughts without |
| 0:53.6 | a thinker, going to pieces without |
| 0:55.4 | falling apart, and the trauma of everyday life. Welcome to think again, Mark. Thank you. I'm hoping |
| 1:01.2 | this show will not be part of the trauma of your everyday life. It is already. Excellent. Okay, so |
| 1:07.6 | here's how this works. Our producers have chosen short surprise interview clips for us to listen to and discuss, and they could be on any subject and they're a surprise to me too. Shall we begin? |
| 1:17.1 | Let's go. Fantastic. What's up first, Erin? This is Kate Sukle on how love affects the brain. |
| 1:25.8 | I think that the revolution in neuroscience is sort of happening in two |
| 1:30.5 | fronts. One is the study of epigenetics. And the best way to think of the epigenome is that if our |
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