Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from 5-star app Meditation Studio.

I'm Patricia Carpus, co-founder of Meditation Studio, and your host on Untangle, along with my co-host, Ariel Garten, one of the founders of brain-sensing device muse.

Join us each week as we introduce you to authors, experts, and thought leaders who share

their stories on how meditation, mindfulness, and brain-focused practices have the power

to change our lives. Whether you're just learning to meditate or want to deepen your practice,

meditation studio with hundreds of guided meditations and over 50 amazing teachers,

and Muse, which provides great feedback on your practice,

are two awesome tools you'll want to have in your back pocket. Now,

here's Ariel for this week's episode. My name is Ariel Garten, and today I'm going to take you

inside the head of someone extraordinarily fascinating. His name is Dr. James Fallon, and he's a neuroscientist. He's a professor of

psychiatry and an Emeritus professor of anatomy and neurobiology at the University of California,

Irvine. He also has the neurological and genetic traits of a psychopath, and from him,

we'll learn some surprising lessons

on how to be even better humans ourselves.

Let's go inside the head of Dr. Jim Fallon.

So let's begin at the beginning

with the context behind what makes you a little bit different than other people.

I mean, from the biological markers, I am. But if you, I think if you met me,

which I have and can attest, you are an amazing, gregarious, wonderful man, yes.

You'd say, you know, usually people's responses like a regular guy, and I've always felt like a

regular guy, you know, I'd still have my teamsters card. I was a bartender and a truck driver,

a laborer, did all those things and enjoyed them. And I also taught almost every grade,

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