The Architects of Reality: Srini Pillay
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered how your brain functions when setting goals? How does it differentiate between the basic, more primal goals and the more complex goals we as humans can create? Srini Pillay is an expert in the “head and heart” approach to personal development, and he knows all about how the brain works and the tricks you can do to help set more attainable goals.
Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal development and goal mastery that blends science, spirituality, and horns-grabbing joie de vivre to combat the stresses faced by ambitious and high-achieving people in academia, business, and life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Trini. So I hope you've been enjoying the Architects of Reality series because we wanted to give you a glimpse into what you're going to experience at this event. |
| 0:08.0 | This isn't just another conference where you're going to go home inspired for a few days and not see anything change in your life. You're going to leave with |
| 0:14.3 | superpowers that allow you to bend reality. And because we're committed to making this |
| 0:18.0 | affordable and accessible to all of our listeners, we've even set up a payment plan and I encourage you to get your |
| 0:22.4 | tickets, ASAP because the prices will go up. We've even set up a payment plan and I encourage you to get your tickets |
| 0:23.0 | ASIP because the prices will go up the closer we get to the conference. |
| 0:26.5 | And given that it's been six years since we did the last one, it's entirely possible |
| 0:30.8 | that there won't be another one after this. Go to unmistakable Creative.com slash reality and get your tickets today. |
| 0:36.6 | Again, that's unmistakable Creative.com slash reality. |
| 0:40.0 | Now, on to the show. |
| 0:41.6 | In tons of goals, there's simple cognition and there's complex cognition. |
| 0:46.3 | And simple cognition is, you know, I need to go get some bread or I need to visit somebody |
| 0:52.1 | who lives in a particular street. |
| 0:54.0 | That's pretty direct. |
| 0:55.3 | It's easier to get to that goal. |
| 0:57.3 | You know where you're going, you know how to get there, and you use simple cognition to get |
| 1:01.2 | there. |
| 1:02.2 | But when you say, I want to make an extra |
| 1:04.0 | $100,000 or I want to fall in love or I want to enhance my state of |
| 1:08.6 | happiness or I want to find the job that I truly love, those are more abstract goals and they involve what we call complex cognition. |
| 1:18.0 | And complex cognition involves more than just following some kind of formula. |
| 1:24.0 | It really relies heavily on your own sense of ingenuity. |
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