Best of 2017: The Neuroscience of Goals with Srini Pillay

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered how your brain functions when setting goals? How does it differentiate between the basic, more primal goals and the more complex goals we as humans can create? Srini Pillay is an expert in the “head and heart” approach to personal development, and he knows all about how the brain works and the tricks you can do to help set more attainable goals.

Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal development and goal mastery that blends science, spirituality, and horns-grabbing joie de vivre to combat the stresses faced by ambitious and high-achieving people in academia, business, and life.

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0:00.0	In terms of goals, there's simple cognition and there's complex cognition.
0:04.6	And simple cognition is, you know, I need to go get some bread or I need to visit somebody who lives in a particular street.
0:12.1	That's pretty direct.
0:13.7	It's easier to get to that goal.
0:15.8	You know where you're going, you know how to get there,
0:18.2	and you use simple cognition to get there.
0:20.7	But when you say, I want to make an extra $100,000 or I want to fall in love or or I want to enhance my state of happiness or I want to find the job that I truly love
0:32.0	those are more abstract goals and they involve what we call
0:35.0	complex cognition.
0:37.0	And complex cognition involves more than just following some kind of formula. It really relies heavily on your own sense of ingenuity.
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