#92 Lisa Feldman Barrett: Balancing the Brain Budget
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Farnam Street
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Neuroscientist, psychologist and author, Lisa Feldman Barrett discusses the complexities of the brain, our emotions, improving ourselves and our relationship with others, making good decisions and giving yourself an existential break.
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| 0:00.0 | If you love something, you're reading something or you're hearing something and, you know, |
| 0:05.2 | on the news maybe or you're watching a YouTube thing or whatever and you love it, whatever |
| 0:10.0 | was just said validates some deeply held belief that you have. |
| 0:15.6 | And whenever you hear something that you hate, that just violated probably some deeply |
| 0:19.7 | held belief that you just had. |
| 0:21.5 | So stop and take a moment and think about it and try to observe what's going on. |
| 0:28.4 | If you take a moment before the heat of the moment has you in its grip, you will make |
| 0:35.0 | better decisions. |
| 0:50.8 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm Shane Parrish and you're listening to The Knowledge Project. |
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| 1:20.1 | This week I'm talking with Lisa Feldman Barrett, a distinguished professor of psychology at |
| 1:24.5 | Northeastern University. |
| 1:26.4 | What first attracted me to Lisa's work was her book How Emotions Are Made. |
| 1:30.8 | And while emotions feel automatic and uncontrollable, Lisa's theory is that emotion is constructed |
| 1:36.0 | in the moment. |
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