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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

72. Your Skepticals: Cognitive Bias, Neuroscience and Negative Thoughts

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

I'm taking a slightly different route on the podcast this week, bringing you a metaphor that is going to act as an amazing tool for your thought work. Today, I'm using neuroscience to demonstrate the real power of your brain and why confirmation bias exists.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/72


Text your email address to 347-997-1784 for a worksheet that you can use to help adjust the prescription on your skepticals. Reply with "skeptical" (all lowercase).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

0:16.3

and get what you want in life.

0:18.6

And now here's your host.

0:20.3

Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, Kara Loyenthyle.

0:27.6

Hello my chickens, how are you all? Today's podcast is a little maybe, I don't know if I would call it off-brand,

0:40.0

but at a character maybe, I'm not really the silly goofy type that's not really my kind of

0:48.1

of emo but my friend Rachel and I came up with this idea recently and it is such a good metaphor that I am willing to do a whole podcast episode about it just so you can learn it.

1:00.0

And also I want to tell you before we get started to stay tuned not only to learn this amazing metaphor,

1:06.0

but I have another giveaway this week.

1:09.0

If you missed last week's giveaway, in last week's episode I gave you instructions on how to get my

1:13.0

recommended reading list so go back and check out episode 71 about love.

1:17.8

Today I'm going to teach you how to get a free worksheet that's going to help you apply what this episode teaches.

1:25.4

So stay tuned for that at the end.

1:28.4

All right, so my friend Rachel and I, so by the way, I have a lot of digression today.

1:33.6

So Rachel is an amazing coach. Her name is Rachel Hart and she's the host of the Take A Break Podcast,

1:39.6

which is all about how to reduce or stop drinking. So if you are wanting to reduce or stop drinking,

1:46.0

you should check her out. You'll recognize some of what I teach, but she also teaches a whole bunch of

1:51.7

different stuff and of course all with a very different focus than what I teach so I highly recommend it.

1:58.0

All right, so that's what Rachel is and Rachel and I came up with this idea recently of skeptical's.

2:05.0

I'm going to explain what those are.

2:07.0

I just want to be clear that I'm sacrificing my dignity

2:11.0

for your all benefit. This episode will probably be a little bit on the

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