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The James Altucher Show

646 - When music meet neuroscience, how music can make you better - Indre Viskontas

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

I always wanted to learn to play music, even now, I just bought the Jazz Piano Book, and try to learn it! In this episode, I have neuroscientist, operatic soprano, author of How Music Can Make You Better, professor and podcast host, Indre Viskontas, on to talk about the relationship between neuroscience and music, what music trigger which part of the brain! We also explored the 10 thousand hours rule of music learning! Enjoy! I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.8

This is the James Altiger Show.

0:12.8

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:16.4

Injray Viscontas is such an amazing person.

0:19.8

She wrote a book, How Music Can Make You Better?

0:22.4

Well how does she know?

0:23.8

She's both an opera singer and a neuroscientist.

0:27.8

She's a professor of psychology and we talk a variety of fascinating subjects on the topics

0:33.6

of both music and neuroscience.

0:35.9

What neuroschemicals are triggered by what types of songs?

0:39.0

How do you make a song that's a hit?

0:40.9

How do you get better at music?

0:42.6

Where we talk about one of my favorite topics, the 10,000 hour rule, and we just talk about

0:48.4

music in general.

0:49.9

And really fun talk.

0:51.8

Here's Injray.

0:57.8

So, I have Injray Viscontas who is both a neuroscientist and an opera singer and she's

1:11.8

a professor of psychology at University of San Francisco or San Francisco University.

1:16.6

I always forget these things.

1:18.4

University of San Francisco, USF.

1:20.7

And you wrote this excellent book How Music Can Make You Better?

1:24.2

And I listen to music all day long and I want to figure out if it's making me better or

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