Iain McGilchrist on The Divided Yet Connected Brain
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
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🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, author, lecturer, and former Oxford Literary Scholar. He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mold, and in turn is molded by, our minds and brains.
Today Iain and Eric discuss his book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
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Iain McGilchrist and I Discuss The Divided yet Connected Brain and …
- His book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
- That creativity requires resistance
- The differences between the two hemispheres of our brain
- How distinctions are important but divisions are invented by us
- The ways our brain hemispheres work together
- That our world is currently dominated by left brain hemisphere thinking
- The ways we might address the crises we face as a species and world
- How he responds to the critics of a right brain/left brain theory
- The ways in which our hemispheres are connected and work together
- The difference between our two hemispheres isn’t as much what they do but how they do it
- The 8 portals our brain uses to get information about the world
- The 4 powers we have to arrive at truth
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| 0:00.0 | One of the things that worries me in this world is that we are losing our respect both for science and for reason. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:18.3 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:22.8 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:28.4 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:32.6 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:37.3 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:40.2 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:43.6 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:45.6 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:47.2 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:52.0 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 0:56.4 | how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:13.2 | Where were you in 92? |
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| 1:16.1 | Wondering if you, like Billy Ray Cyrus, could pull off a moment? |
| 1:18.9 | Now I had as a podcast all about it. |
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