#456 - David Robson - The Psychological Power Of Expectations

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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David Robson is an award-winning science writer specialising in the extremes of the human brain, body and behaviour.

Our expectations have a profound effect on the outcomes we get in life. This isn't positive vibes from The Secret, this is one of the most replicable, robust effects that impacts pretty much everything we care about to do with our lives and health.

Expect to learn how people with no gluten intolerance can have a gluten reaction after eating a meal with no gluten in it, why the drones at Gatwick were probably imagined, why French people eat worse than Americans but live longer, how your thoughts are more important than your genes when it comes to athletic performance and much more...

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome back to the show.
0:03.0	My guest today is David Robson,
0:05.3	he's an award-winning science writer
0:07.1	specializing in the extremes of the human brain, body, and behaviour.
0:11.5	Our expectations have a profound effect on the outcomes that we get in life.
0:15.4	This isn't positive vibes from the secret.
0:17.8	This is one of the most replicable, robust effects that impact pretty much everything
0:22.9	that we care about to do with our lives and our health.
0:25.4	Expect to learn how people with no gluten intolerance
0:28.7	can have a gluten reaction after eating a meal with no gluten in it.
0:32.4	Why the drones at Gatwick were probably imagined,
0:35.2	why French people eat worse than Americans, but live longer,
0:38.4	how your thoughts are more important than your genes
0:41.2	when it comes to athletic performance, and much more.
0:45.3	This book and David's work about the expectation effect
0:49.2	has been completely consuming me since I had this conversation with him.
0:52.8	I've spoken about it on a bunch of other podcasts that I've guested on.
0:56.0	Every so often I do a podcast that completely sort of changes my view
1:00.2	around something that we're all very familiar with,
1:04.4	how we frame events and the sort of impact that this has.
1:07.6	And this is a real, very, very shocking episode in the nicest way possible.
1:14.2	There is so much to take away from today.
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