E211: No.1 Neuroscientist: How To Increase Your Salary By $33,000 With One Small Change! - Doctor Tali Sharot
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Is the cup of life half full or half empty? Would you call yourself an optimist or a pessimist? What if you weren’t actually in control of this, but instead through the process of evolution your brain had been hardwired to be optimistic?
Neuroscientist Dr. Tali Sharot calls this the ‘Optimism Bias’, it’s the belief that the future will be better, much better, than what has come before or even your current situation. This trick of the brain can effect how you remember the past and how you predict and plan for the future.
In this episode, Dr. Tali Sharot discusses her groundbreaking work and the impacts it can have on all areas of your life, from relationships to career decisions. If you want to understand the mysteries of your brain this is a conversation not to be missed.
Topics:
- Your professional background
- What really matters in our lives
- How do we dive into uncertainty
- How to become more optimistic
- Influencing people
- How to motivate people
- The optimism bias
- How contagious is optimism or pessimism ?
- How real is manifesting
- If someones negative how do I make them positive
- Happiness throughout our life
- Children impacting our happiness
- Marriage impacting our happiness
- Fearing people into action
- The role stress plays in peoples actions
- What are you working on next
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| 0:00.0 | You say that children learn the impact or happiness positively. |
| 0:04.0 | I mean that's a data. What are you going to do? |
| 0:06.0 | And that kind of got me worried I have to say. |
| 0:08.8 | Dr. Tally Sherrett, a leading expert on human decision making, optimism and emotion. |
| 0:14.4 | Her TED talk has received over 14 million views. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm going to talk to you about optimism. |
| 0:20.2 | Kids and children, they're happiest and the most optimistic. |
| 0:23.1 | Then it goes down and reaches rock bottom in your midlife. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm 30 now so I'm heading right down to rock bottom as we speak. |
| 0:32.7 | Any advice? |
| 0:33.7 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 0:35.0 | So... |
| 0:36.0 | One of the startling things is you talk about how one tiny move up on the optimism scale is worth an extra $33,000 a year in salary. |
| 0:44.0 | It's quite something. |
| 0:45.1 | So, optimists, this is what they usually do. |
| 0:48.2 | If something went well, they usually interpret that as something about them that caused this positive outcome. |
| 0:54.6 | Pesimists do the exact opposite. |
| 0:56.6 | I got the job, but really because they didn't have any other candidates. |
| 1:00.6 | Is that negative explanatory style? |
| 1:02.8 | The road to depression? |
| 1:03.9 | There's a really tight link between depression and pessimism. |
| 1:07.2 | The question becomes, well, how do I enhance optimism? |
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