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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 27 - How To Become The Person You Want To Be: Prof. Steve Peters

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

Steve Peters is a doctor, a psychiatrist, a professor and a mental coach for the world’s top athletes and business leaders. He’s also the author of “The Chimp Paradox”, which has sold millions of copies worldwide and put forward the groundbreaking ‘Chimp model’ for understanding how our brains work.

In this moment episode, Steve helps us understand how our brains work and reveals what is actually driving us to do what we do and be who we are.

Transcript

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The mind isn't one entity working, so when I ask people about self-image, I'm now going

0:09.6

to split the mind a bit and say, what is the self-image that you feel you would like

0:14.4

to have and that you are aiming to present to the world?

0:19.2

And what's the genetic self-image that your mind is giving you and the mind interpreting,

0:24.6

hence I started saying you have this circuitry which is rational and logical looking at the

0:28.9

facts and you have a circuitry which is emotionally based, so it's not logic and emotion,

0:33.4

it's logically based with emotion and it's emotion based with logic and we don't control that,

0:40.2

so if I try and it's detailed, listen to that one again, what I'm saying is we have control over

0:47.1

the circuitry which I call the human circuits and your self-image then might be that I'm a

0:52.8

compassionate guy that I'm a trustworthy person that I always give 100%, this is what your self-image

0:58.8

could be when I discuss with you and your circuits are responding, however, if you've moved the

1:06.0

blood supply and oxygen uptake into what I'm calling the chimp circuits, circuits which are quite

1:10.9

primitive but think you don't have any control over that, so they will generate thinking and the

1:17.6

chimp circuits may give a very different answer because they're much more likely to be emotionally

1:22.6

and say how you feel about yourself rather than the reality, so the feeling could be the reality

1:28.0

but it's likely not to be, so we get two images from two different circuits.

1:33.6

In the world we live in especially the social media world, it feels like our drives and our values

1:38.5

are somewhat sometimes handed to us and we don't even know that something isn't our true

1:44.8

intrinsic driver or values but because of a desire to be to fit in or to gain approval from people,

1:53.5

we take it up as a value of our own or we say if we're asked that that's something that drives

1:58.8

us but it's not so we might say we want to be, we want to land bikini or we want to be a public

2:03.7

speaker or whatever but really probably underpinning that is our desire to be to get recognition and to

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