Welcome to Commune, where each week we explore the ideas and practices that bring us together

and help us live healthy and purpose-filled lives. In addition to being a podcast,

Commune is also an online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers. Check it out at

OneCommune.com. So here at Commune, we're all about helping you live your best and healthiest life,

cheering you on as you work towards your highest potential.

We've done episodes on the power of food to impact your overall health and well-being,

the power of community, the power of body movement and of yoga.

We've offered tools for self-reflection, growth, healing, and more.

We've shared all of these beautiful, valuable, actionable practices with

you, but as we're all looking forward into 2019 and beyond with big goals and dreams, I don't know

about you, but kicking bad habits and introducing new healthier ones are at the top of my list.

We know what we should be doing and about the practices we'd like to start doing,

but what are we up against when it comes to actually doing the thing? What is actually going on

inside our brains? What do habits, good and bad, look like and what could be helpful for us to

know about our physiology when it comes to achieving our highest potential?

Well, we couldn't exactly look into people's heads and place electrodes on their brains to see what the human experience actually looks like.

So we found the one guy who actually does just that.

Meet Moran Surf, a neuroscientist and business professor at the Kellogg School of Management

and the Neuroscience Program at Northwestern University. Before dedicating his life to hacking

the human brain, he spent years as an actual hacker, getting hired to break into high-level

banks to test their security systems. Today, he's on the board of several Neurotech companies and is the co-founder

of Thinkalike and BQ, an organization that utilizes neuroscience for the betterment of society.

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