425: The Science of Sin with Dr. Jack Lewis
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Science of Sin
with Dr. Jack Lewis
The seven deadly sins are: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. Religious or not, most of us would like to avoid these behaviors, but modern technology has made the temptation almost irresistible.
How do you not overeat with such brain-triggering processed foods laden with sugar, fat, salt, and flavors? How does a pubescent boy not spend hours a day down a black hole of online porn? And is it any wonder that binge-watching Netflix series has become the norm?
The moral path has always been a challenging one,but right now, it's nearly-impossible. On this week’s show, we’ll discuss the neuroscience behind these behaviors.
Listen & Learn:
- How pornography lights up dopamine centers
- How anonymity online enables wrath and envy at disproportionate levels
- Why in some cases, the best way to avoid this bad behaviors is through engineered avoidance
- How to understand your brain chemistry so you can adapt to the modern world
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Neuroscientist, writer, and personality on a mission to understand the inworkings of the Human Brian. He’s the author of two books, Sort Your Brain Out and The Science of Sin.
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| 0:00.0 | So we have the seven deadly sins, pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and slough, and taken at face value I think most people would agree these are these are |
| 0:17.8 | characteristics behaviors sins if you want to put them in a moral context that we would like to avoid but if you |
| 0:25.6 | dig a little bit deeper you realize that all of these have an asterisk all of these |
| 0:30.8 | have a caveat and there's a time in a place where pride is not only desirable but necessary |
| 0:36.9 | where greed is not only desirable but necessary where wrath and be |
| 0:40.8 | all of these things are actually highly, highly functional and healthy. |
| 0:46.4 | And so it's a really difficult thing to navigate. |
| 0:48.5 | I've been thinking a lot about what morality means, what my morals are, what my values are. |
| 0:55.0 | And I always thought I was really clear on that, |
| 0:58.0 | but really quickly when I start to parse it out and think about it, |
| 1:02.0 | there's a lot of issues that I don't really have a |
| 1:04.5 | decided opinion on. And this becomes even more challenging when you're raising kids. I have |
| 1:09.7 | three kids at very different stages of development and I very much want them to be their own |
| 1:15.0 | person but at the same time I would like to make sure that I am my own whole person as an |
| 1:20.3 | example and in some areas I'm just not sure that I'm I have fully formed opinions or ideas |
| 1:24.4 | about some of these things so I've been trying to dig a little bit deeper if you're new here it's the |
| 1:28.4 | Lucas Rockwood show I'm your host I'm a yoga teacher a trainer I'm a entrepreneur, but first and foremost I'm a student I like to learn things so I go out into the world of health and wellness, mind-body research, neuroscience like we'll be chatting about this weekend. |
| 1:40.0 | Try to bring people onto the show who are writing books and doing |
| 1:44.4 | interesting things sitting in caves and meditating and hopefully their |
| 1:48.3 | information their ideas will help all of us live more fulfilled lives. On this |
| 1:51.8 | week's show we'll be chatting about the science of sin, what's going on in your brain when you get wrapped up in pride or greed or wrath or lost or whichever of the seven sins it may be. |
| 2:02.7 | Hopefully give you a little bit of insight |
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