David Redish

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This week we talk to David Redish about decision making

David Redish is currently a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. He received his undergraduate degree in writing and computer science from Johns Hopkins in 1991 and his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997, where he was a student member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition under the supervision of Dr. David Touretzky. He was a postdoc with Drs. Bruce McNaughton and Carol Barnes at the University of Arizona from 1997-2000. He has been at the University of Minnesota since 2000, where his lab studies learning, memory, and how animals (including humans) make decisions. His latest book is called The Mind within the Brain: How We Make Decisions and How those Decisions Go Wrong.

In This Interview David and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
What a decision is.
The four decision making systems in humans.

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0:00.0	That's a great question and unfortunately the answer seems to be we don't know yet.
0:14.0	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:16.0	Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:20.5	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:26.0	And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:30.0	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:35.0	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:38.0	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:41.0	But it's not just about thinking.
0:43.0	Our actions matter.
0:45.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:49.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
0:54.0	How they feed their good wolf.
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1:09.0	I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.
1:14.0	We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success, failure, whatever else comes to mind.
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1:24.0	I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.
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1:36.0	Thanks for joining us.
1:38.0	Our guest today is David Reddish, professor of neuroscience at the University of Minnesota.
1:43.0	David's laboratory studies learning, memory, and how animals, including humans, make decisions.
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