Daily: Great Expectations – How Your Mindset Can Change Your Life

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We’ve all heard of the placebo effect, but what about the Expectation Effect? What we think will happen can change what does happen. David Robson, science journalist and author of The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World, talks to Alex Andreou about how our way of thinking shapes our everyday lives. Does believing stress is beneficial make you more creative under pressure? And can associating ageing with wisdom really add seven years to your life? “There’s a lot of pseudoscience that says positivity can solve your problems. This is not that at all.” “The expectation of becoming ill can actually increase your chances of becoming ill.” “People who have a positive view of ageing are more likely to live longer than those who have a negative view.” “Our expectations can shape our perceptions of food.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees and Robin Leeburn. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
0:16.0	Yeah, yeah.
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1:19.2	obsessed and detached in my curiosity about how the mind works and how it ceases
1:25.0	it ceases working, or perhaps just changes.
1:28.0	As a seasoned carer, it's been 10 years since Mama's diagnosis.
1:33.1	There is one piece of advice I passed to anyone
1:36.3	in the early days of facing this task.
1:39.5	Do not fast forward in your head to what you think will happen.
1:44.0	Alzheimer's patients are mercurial.
1:47.0	It is primarily you that can create a negative feedback loop.
1:51.0	The progress of this disease or anything else is not always linear. Deal with
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