Resetting Expectations

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The twists and turns of this pandemic have left many of us uncertain of what to expect in the year ahead. But did you know that simply changing your expectations can have a tangible effect on your wellbeing? CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to science writer David Robson about the ways our expectations can impact our lives, for better or for worse. Plus, concrete tips for how we can use the scientific phenomenon of the “expectation effect” to sleep better, eat healthier, and live longer. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've always been fascinated with the brain.
0:05.8	At least since I was a teenager.
0:08.4	Neither one of my parents are doctors, so I had never really spent much time in hospitals
0:12.9	before.
0:13.9	I had never thought about medicine as a potential profession.
0:17.9	But when I was around 13 or 14 years old, my grandfather had a stroke.
0:23.0	We were very close.
0:24.6	He was the natural storyteller in our family.
0:27.6	He was the one always with the joke, always giving me a lot of advice, and I spent a lot
0:32.6	of time with him in the hospital during his recovery.
0:37.3	I think it was the first time I really saw what was happening in the brain.
0:43.2	I saw, for example, that my grandfather could write, but could not read.
0:48.4	He could speak, but he couldn't always understand.
0:58.3	When I think about my chosen career of neurosurgery, operating on brains and spinal cords, it was
1:04.8	because of that experience I had with my grandfather so many years ago that set me on this life-long
1:09.7	journey of exploration to try and better understand the brain.
1:13.9	The brain is a complex work, and you know that.
1:17.7	It controls all of the functions in our body.
1:20.9	It is the seed of our thoughts and our memories and our emotions.
1:24.6	It is what makes us, us.
1:27.8	And yet, it's also such a big mystery.
1:31.4	Arguably, the most enigmatic three and a half pounds of tissue that exists anywhere
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