Hello friends, welcome back to the show my guest today is Ian McGilchrist, he's a psychiatrist,

author and former Oxford literary scholar. Modern society praises rationality as the pinnacle

destination that we should all aim for. Tradition and intuition are seen as silly, inaccurate,

hokey approaches for which we have much more precise solutions now. Ian has identified that

neuroscience, philosophy, theology and psychology don't always agree with this though.

Expect to learn why the modern world is so obsessed with cognition, why deliberateness makes

less sense the more experienced you are, what happens if someone loses one half of their brain,

what horse racing experts and isle of man motorcyclists can teach us about intuition and much more.

This conversation about the tension between thinking and feeling, cognition and intuition has

been something that I've been playing with for ages and Ian is the perfect guy to sit down with

and have this conversation. He's got this sort of gorgeous grandfather-esque British accent wisdom

thing going on. He's awesome, he's awesome, you're going to absolutely love this. Don't forget that

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