Stanford Neuroscientist: 4 Simple Shifts to Fix Your Focus, Mood, & Motivation

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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What if I told you that your brain is being hijacked constantly (and not just in the ways that you might think). There are 4 forces in modern life that are rewiring your brain RIGHT NOW. In fact, your brain is continuously rewiring itself. BUT we CAN have control over how it rewires and improve our thoughts, happiness, and overall life. So today I sit down with Dr. David Eagleman, a Stanford neuroscientist (whose work actually inspired my famous “The Novelty Rule”) to share the latest neuroscience research and translate it into practical tools you can use immediately to help you take control of your brain health and feel so much better about your technology addiction, your anxiety or depression, your concerns around AI changing our thinking, and so much more. You’ll leave feeling surprisingly optimistic with the data he shares, so get excited. 🎧 What you’ll learn: • One tiny change you can make today to wake your brain up • The surprising link between routine and cognitive decline • How to "microdose novelty" to slow down time, sharpen your brain, and build resilience • The "Ulysses Contract" trick to outsmart your phone • A new breakthrough one-day treatment to stop past trauma from running your mind • Why AI might actually make our thinking smarter if we use it in the right way Check out the previous episode of The Liz Moody Podcast discussed today: The Novelty Rule: How To Use My Neuroscience Hack That’s Changing Millions Of Lives For more from David Eagleman: • Website: https://eagleman.com/ • Books: https://eagleman.com/books/ • Podcast: https://eagleman.com/podcast/ Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome.Buy our cute sweatshirts, conversation cards, and more at https://shop.lizmoody.com/. Use our discount codes from our highly vetted and tested brand partners by visiting https://www.lizmoody.com/codes. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors: • Puori: visit Puori.com/LizMoody and use code LIZMOODY at checkout for a discount and special offer. • LMNT: head to DrinkLMNT.com/Liz to get a FREE 8-count sample pack with any order. • IQBAR: text LIZ to 64000 for 20% off all IQBar products plus free shipping. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 418. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What if I told you that your brain is being hijacked and not just in the ways that you might think?
0:05.0	There are actually four forces in modern life that are rewiring your brain right now.
0:11.1	And most of us don't even realize that the biggest one is something that we do on purpose every single day.
0:17.1	Here's what I keep hearing from you guys.
0:18.5	You feel like your attention is broken.
0:20.8	You can't read a book or go out to dinner without reaching for your phone. Me too. I feel this one a lot. You feel stuck in anxiety or depression and you're starting to wonder if your brain is just wired this way, if this is your default way of thinking on some sort of sticky underlying level. You're worried about the impact of
0:39.5	AI on your brain or your kids' brains or the brains of society at large. And you feel like life
0:46.8	is just flying by. Like you blinked and it was the holidays and then it was January and now it's
0:52.7	the springtime and then it's going to be summer
0:54.6	and you don't know where the time is going. Today we're going to talk about what's actually
0:59.5	happening in your brain with each of those things and what you can actually do about them.
1:04.9	This is the latest research in neuroscience translated into things that you can do right now that
1:09.7	will make a real difference, a difference that you will feel in your life.
1:13.2	Also, I know that this stuff can be scary, but I want to say up front that this episode is not scary.
1:20.0	In fact, it's going to make you feel way better about AI and about your phone and about any past trauma that you've endured.
1:27.3	My guest today is one of the most
1:29.3	optimistic people that I have ever met, but it's also not blind optimism. He has all of the
1:35.4	research to back up the way that he feels and he communicates all of that to all of us today. So
1:40.5	get excited. Dr. David Eagleman is a Stanford neuroscientist whose work is actually part of
1:46.9	what inspired my famous novelty rule, which I know so many of you use and benefit from daily.
1:52.3	He is the best-selling author of like a zillion books, including LiveWired, which is one of my
1:56.9	absolute favorites. And he is the host of the Inner Cosmos podcast, which I absolutely love.
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