Breaking Free of Our Brain’s Negativity Bias to Create a Better Future with Ari Wallach

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and WHOOP. Many of the problems we face today, from climate change to work anxiety, are the result of short-term thinking. We are constantly bombarded by notifications and “breaking news” that overwhelm our central nervous systems, forcing us to react in the moment and ultimately disconnecting us from what truly matters. But there is a solution. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru talks to Ari Wallach about how we face challenges that require us to think beyond our individual life spans to the impact we have on future generations. They discuss how we can become the ancestors the future needs through an applied mindset Ari calls Longpath that implements shifts in thinking, decision-making, and behavior that move our society and species toward future-consciousness. Ari Wallach is a futurist and social systems strategist. He is the founder and Executive Director of Longpath Labs, an initiative focused on bringing long-term thinking and coordinated behavior to the individual, organizational, and societal realms in order to ensure humanity flourishes on an ecologically thriving planet Earth for centuries to come. In this episode, we dive into: -Why we’re so driven by short-term behavior and thinking (2:05) -How short-term thinking gets us into trouble (4:10) -What is driving our short-term thinking (7:27) -The principles of the Longpath perspective (15:10) -How the world is getting better, not worse (20:30) -Why we’re hardwired for negativity bias and how to move past it (30:55) -Transgenerational empathy (42:19) -Why it’s important to start with the past when creating change (54:15) -Dhru’s gratitude practice (1:05:46) -Steps people can take today to shift their thinking towards a Longpath perspective (1:33:24) For more on Ari Wallach, follow him on Instagram @ariw, Facebook @ariwallach, Twitter @ariw, and through his website, longpath.org. Get his book, Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs, here. This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and WHOOP. Magnesium Breakthrough really stands out from the other magnesium supplements out there. BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off, so just head over to magbreakthrough.com/dhru with code DHRU10. WHOOP is a personalized digital fitness tracker and health coaching platform that monitors your physiology 24/7 and provides personalized recommendations based on what your body needs. For me, it's been a game-changer to optimize my sleep and improve my fitness, performance, and overall health. To get yours, go to join.whoop.com and get 15% off your membership with code DHRU15. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is what I'm doing right now going to ensure that the generations to come that they're going to be in a better place tomorrow than we are in today?
0:08.9	Welcome to the Druper Oet podcast. Each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of the brightest minds and wellness medicine and mindset.
0:17.6	This week's guest is Ari Wallach. And on today's discussion with Ari, we're talking about how to break free from short-term thinking
0:26.7	and step into your true life's purpose not just to improve your own life, which is great, an important part of today's discussion, but to be a better ancestor for future generations.
0:39.0	Ari is a futurist, social system strategist, and the executive director of Long Path Labs, an initiative focused on bringing long-term thinking both to individuals and organizations.
0:52.8	Ari's TED Talk on the Long Path approach or methodology has been viewed over 2.5 million times and translated into 19 different languages.
1:04.1	In addition to all his accolades, Ari was most recently an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University of International and Public Affairs,
1:12.4	lecturing on innovation, AI, and the futures of governance and public policy.
1:17.7	If you're interested in the topics of how to break out of our brain's natural negativity bias, if you're interested on how to step out of the fear that often the media drums up and tries to distract us on,
1:32.7	and if you're interested on how to become a nuanced and independent thinker who's asking himself, how can I become a better ancestor for future generations?
1:41.3	This podcast is absolutely for you. Stay tuned.
1:45.5	Ari, welcome to the podcast. A pleasure to have you here. I've been loving listening to interviews that you've been doing with friends of mine and diving into the book.
1:54.1	I want to start off with a big picture question that I feel like is a great container for this conversation.
1:59.6	We'll help our audience follow along with everything that we'll build from here because we have a lot of layers we're going to get through.
2:04.1	A lot of layers.
2:05.1	Why are we as human beings, homo sapiens, me and you, and everybody who's listening?
2:11.1	Why are we so driven by short term behavior, short term thinking?
2:16.5	And part two, is that a bad or good thing?
2:21.1	You are starting off in the big container for the whole conversation.
2:24.3	First of all, thanks for having me.
2:25.7	Look, if you and I are walking 15, 20,000 years ago in the serengeti or on the Russian steps and all of a sudden a very large animal jumps out from behind a tree and starts chasing us,
2:38.1	what you and I should immediately do is immediately react.
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