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🗓️ 25 September 2021
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Beau Lotto is is a professor of Neuroscience at the University of London and an author.
Beau is the founder of the Lab Of Misfits which he describes as "lunatic fringe neuroscience". He's created nightclubs in his lab where every action people take is measured, he's locked people in dark rooms and waited to see what happens and he's got actors to have a fit on the floor to observe how people respond.
Expect to learn the neuroscience of why awe makes us feel so connected to the world around us, how donating a lot of money to charity can turn off that girl you're trying to impress, why unanswered questions cause so much anxiety, how distraction occurs in our brains and much more...
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0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Bo Lotto. He's a professor of neuroscience at the University of London and an author. |
0:08.6 | Bo is the founder of the Lab of Misfits, which he describes as lunatic fringe neuroscience. |
0:15.6 | He's created nightclubs in his lab where every action people take is measured. |
0:19.9 | He's locked people in dark rooms and waited to see what happens, and he's got actors to have a fit on the floor to observe how people respond. |
0:27.8 | Today, expect to learn the neuroscience of why awe makes us feel so connected to the world around us, |
0:33.6 | how donating a lot of money to charity can turn off that girl that you're trying to impress. |
0:38.1 | Why unanswered questions causes so much anxiety, how distraction occurs in our brains, and much more. |
0:45.7 | Don't forget that the modern wisdom reading list is now live. You should take your face to chrisswillx.com slashbooks |
0:52.4 | to download your copy now. There is a hundred books that you need to read before you die waiting for you. chrisswillx.com slashbooks |
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