#28: David Eagleman—Break Free of Your Soul-Sucking Routine
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes it can feel like you're constantly stuck in the same soul-sucking routine day after day, like a hamster in a wheel. And even if it's not draining all your energy, it can still be mentally exhausting. That is exactly why we invited David Eagleman to the podcast! David is a neuroscientist and best-selling author of the Pulitzer nominated Livewired: The Story of the Ever-Changing Brain and gives you simple and easy ways to break out of your routine, improve brain health and gain back your energy at work and at home.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Business Made Simple with Donald Miller, Kula Callahan and Dr. J.J. Peterson. |
| 0:06.4 | It's just Kula today. I've kicked the dudes out of the podcast recording studio and it's just me |
| 0:12.4 | and a neuroscientist talking about the brain. No, for real, I am geeking out about my |
| 0:16.8 | conversation with David Eagleman. He's a neuroscientist at Stanford University. He's also a best-selling |
| 0:21.9 | author and a Guggenheim fellow. He is brilliant and his new book LiveWire talks about how we |
| 0:28.4 | need to include more novelty in our lives in order to stay mentally and cognitively fresh and |
| 0:35.0 | agile. I'm still geeking out about it. This is my conversation with David Eagleman. |
| 0:42.6 | David Truffauts. My brain is different right this very second than it was before we started this |
| 0:48.0 | interview. True. Yeah, your brain is changing every second of your life. Why is it different? |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah, because you got 86 billion neurons in this huge forest and the whole thing is always moving |
| 0:59.0 | and changing and plugging and unplugging and seeking. There's this notion, the technical term, |
| 1:04.8 | is brain plasticity that we talk about. My new book LiveWire is about one of the things I |
| 1:10.9 | suggested that the term plasticity is a little bit of a silly term because it was introduced in |
| 1:15.8 | the era of plastic manufacturing where people were impressed by the fact that you could mold plastic |
| 1:20.8 | into shape and it would hold that shape and that's cool. But what the brain is doing is so much more |
| 1:25.9 | than that. It's a fluid system that's constantly moving and changing and so that's why yes with |
| 1:34.0 | everything that you experience and do and hear you become a different person. What's the biggest |
| 1:41.2 | challenge you feel like people in science have in terms of communicating? Oh, that's easy. It's |
| 1:46.8 | that they're too smart. So I'll tell you, the biggest challenge that scientists have when |
| 1:53.0 | communicating this stuff is the issue of you have a certain way of talking to impressed your |
| 1:58.0 | colleagues within academia in a certain way. And then it's taking off that science hat and putting |
| 2:03.3 | on a founder or CEO hat to figure out how to tell a human interest story. Why anybody should |
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