Dr. Rick Hanson
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2015
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and author of Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence as well as Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom and Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time.
He is the Founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom and an Affiliate of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, he's been an invited speaker at Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide.
An authority on self-directed neuroplasticity, Dr. Hanson's work has been featured on the BBC, NPR, CBC, Fox Business, Consumer Reports Health, U.S. News and World Report, and O Magazine, and his articles have appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Insight Journal, and Inquiring Mind.
In This Interview Rick and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable.
His latest book: Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence.
That feeding the good wolf is a daily habit.
How it's our responsibility to feed our good wolf- no one can do it for us.
How frequently our brain changes.
Experience-dependent neuroplasticity.
That our brains are like velcro for the bad and Teflon for the good.
Deciding what we cultivate and what do you restrain.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, as I put it, we've got to bring this like Velcro for the bad, |
| 0:03.2 | but Teflon for the good. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:14.9 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. |
| 0:19.5 | Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:25.1 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:29.3 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:34.0 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:36.9 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:40.4 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:42.4 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:43.9 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:48.7 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. |
| 0:53.1 | How they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:00.3 | In the 70s, the warehouse took over Chicago Nightlife. |
| 1:12.0 | And the club's DJ would go on to make history. |
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| 1:24.2 | A 12-part podcast about the iconic venues and people that revolutionize how we party. |
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| 1:34.0 | Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:38.7 | Thanks for joining us. |
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