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Dr. Elaine Fox is a psychologist, author and the head of the School of Psychology at the

University of Adelaide in Australia. Prior to her move to Australia, Dr. Fox founded and

directed the Oxford Center for Emotions and Effective Neuroscience. Ocean. At the University of

Oxford, I love ocean to describe that, makes sense. She is a cognitive psychologist by training.

She's a leading mental health researcher, combining genetics, psychology and neuroscience in

her work. She also runs Oxford Elite Performance, a consulting group bringing cutting-edge

science and psychology to those at the top levels of sport, business and the military.

And today, she's with us to chat about her new book titled Switchcraft, the Hidden Power

of Mental Agility. Elaine, welcome.

Hi, Jason. Thanks very much. Great to be on.

So let's start with defining mental agility, because I think it could mean lots of different

things to people. So let's start there. How do you define mental agility? Sure. Well, maybe if I

tell you just a little story, I heard many years ago when I was in London on the London

Underground, I read a story in the newspaper there, which literally made me laugh out loud on

the train. So it was a story about a group of armed robbers who had decided that they would hold

up a shop, a local store. And one of them was a bus driver and they decided in their wisdom to

use his bus as a getaway vehicle. So the armed robbery went well. They held up this store and

off they went in the bus and of course the police were very quickly onto them. And one of the

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