Kevin Mitchell on The Genetics of Personality

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Mitchell is an author and an Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. His research is aimed at understanding the genetic program specifying the wiring of the brain and its relevance to variation in human faculties. Kevin is also the author of the science blog, Wiring the Brain, and a number of books and publications.

In this episode, Eric and Kevin discuss his book, Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are.

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Kevin Mitchell and I Discuss the Genetics of Personality and…

His book, Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
The missing third component in the Nature vs. Nurture debate
Innate Underlying Traits in the Brain: Extroversion, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Openness to Experience
The relationship between genetics and neurobiology
What “neurons that fire together, wire together” actually means
The difference between Personality Traits and Character Traits
The impact of parenting on underlying Personality Traits
How people differ in the amount of “free will” that they have
The connection between genetics and addiction
That we become ourselves throughout lifetime

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Kevin’s Website

Twitter

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0:00.0	It's true that our genes influence our personality traits and that our personality traits influence our behavior
0:05.9	but it's not true that our genes determine our traits or that our traits determine our behavior.
0:10.9	And that's the distinction that I think is really important because it gets away from the idea that we have no control.
0:24.5	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:26.5	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:36.5	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:40.5	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:45.5	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:48.5	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:51.5	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:59.5	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
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