No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Have you ever want to change your mind? Well what if you changed your brain instead? In this new episode Steven sits down with neuroscientist, executive advisor and author, Dr Tara Swart Bieber. Dr Swart, has a PHD in Neuropharmacology and a past successful career medical doctor as a psychiatrist. From there she transferred into becoming a top level leadership coach, specialising in improving mental resilience in CEO’s and helping them to operate at peak brain performance. Her clients include leaders of FTSE100, Fortune 500 and Magic Circle firms. She is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, and the author of the bestselling book, ‘The Source’. In this conversation Tara and Steven discuss topics, such as: How emotions are contagious Neuroscience tricks for love and connection How Tara uses neuroscience to help leaders Using neuroscience to handle stress How stress can make you fat The way that exercise can combat stress How the brain cleans itself The chemical nature of love How to improve relationships using neuroscience Why your gut instinct is real Why the world needs a spiritual revolution The impact of porn on the brain How your friendship group impacts your brain and health The ways to physically change your brain How trauma can be inherited How trauma changes your genes The ways that you can train and strengthen your brain How exercise can change the brain The science of the law of attraction and manifestation Changing the voice in your head How your thoughts can stop you ageing You can purchase Tara’s book, ‘The Source’, here: https://bit.ly/3Rs1m8b Follow Tara: Instagram: https://bit.ly/48hJ1k2 Twitter: https://bit.ly/46gqYZI Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now: https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3nIkGAZ Twitter: http://bit.ly/3ztHuHm Linkedin: https://bit.ly/41Fl95Q Telegram: http://bit.ly/3nJYxST Sponsors: https://www.eightsleep.com/uk/steven/ CODE: STEVEN (save $150 on the Pod Cover) Huel: https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you know, there's a really fascinating experiment done on weight lifters.
0:04.0	They lifted no weights for two weeks. They just sat there and they visualized themselves lifting weights.
0:09.0	They had a 13% increase in muscle mass.
0:12.0	People should realize how much potential they have in their brains.
0:16.0	Doctor Tara Swat.
0:18.0	She's a neuroscientist, medical doctor, executive advisor, and bestselling author.
0:22.0	She's here to teach us on how to build mental resilience to overcome our biggest challenges.
0:27.0	Is stress contagious?
0:29.0	So cortisol is the main stress hormone and it will leak out of our sweat about this far around us.
0:34.0	Go into the skin of everybody else and it's going to impact them.
0:40.0	And as a survival mechanism, it will help you to store fat around your abdomen.
0:45.0	So stress causes belly fat.
0:47.0	Belly fat that's really hard to shift. There's another rabbit hole you could go down about social contagion.
0:52.0	So there are statistics that show that you meet people who are at a similar psychological level to you.
0:57.0	For example, if someone gets divorced, you're more likely to get divorced in the next year.
1:01.0	Your own brain can play tricks on you.
1:03.0	So what can I do about that?
1:05.0	The brain is actively growing and changing till we're about 25.
1:09.0	But from 25 to 65.
1:11.0	If you do things that are intense enough to force your brain to change,
1:16.0	you will actually improve the highest functions of the brain.
1:19.0	Things like regulate your emotions better, solve complex problems, think flexibly, override any unconscious biases that you may have.
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