Peter Whybrow: "When More is Not Enough"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we meet with psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and author Peter Whybrow.
Whybrow gives us an overview of why humans tend to consume excessively in resource-abundant societies. Why is it difficult for humans to change our ways?
Additionally, Whybrow shares pathways for humans to move toward having a well-tuned brain.
About Peter Whybrow:
Peter C. Whybrow, M.D. is Director Emeritus of the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Judson Braun Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, and author of several books, including his newest, The Well-Tuned Brain: Neuroscience and the Life Well-Lived.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.0 | That's me. |
| 0:07.8 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, |
| 0:14.3 | the environment, and our society. |
| 0:17.6 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the bird's-eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do about it as a society and as individuals. |
| 0:32.6 | Today's guest is an international authority on depression, manic depressive disease, and other |
| 0:39.0 | issues around the human brain and our behavior. |
| 0:42.4 | Dr. Peter Weibrow is a professor of biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of |
| 0:48.8 | Medicine at UCLA. |
| 0:50.6 | I've known Peter for almost 20 years where he advised me on my PhD program. |
| 0:55.6 | He had a big influence on my early putting together of the superorganism dynamics of human cultures |
| 1:01.9 | from reading his best-selling book, American Mania. |
| 1:06.0 | Today, Peter and I discuss his latest book, The Well-Tuned Brain, starting with an overview of why human |
| 1:12.9 | beings tend to consume excessively when living in a resource-rich environment. |
| 1:18.4 | Why is it so difficult to change our ways? |
| 1:21.3 | And also pathways for us as individuals and hopefully as a culture to move towards having well-tuned brains. |
| 1:29.3 | I hope you learn some things from my conversation with psychiatrists and author Dr. Peter |
| 1:34.3 | Weibrow. Hello, Dr. Whybrow, good to see you again. Thank you, sir. Always pleased to be with you. |
| 1:53.1 | Where are you today? On the East Coast or the West Coast? I'm on the East Coast today, |
| 1:58.1 | sitting in my ancient New Hampshire farmhouse. |
| 2:02.9 | Excellent. So, Peter, I know there are many neuroscientists who I've read their books. |
| 2:08.5 | I know a few of them, but you're the only one I know who is a neuroscientist, but also deeply |
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