You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. In the kick-off to our annual You 2.0 series, Cornell University psychologist Anthony Burrow explains why purpose isn't something to be found — it's something we can develop from within. If you like our work, please consider supporting it! See how you can help at support.hiddenbrain.org. And to learn more about human behavior and ideas that can improve your life, subscribe to our newsletter at news.hiddenbrain.org.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:03.9	In all our lives, there are moments when the ground starts to shake beneath us, when
0:09.1	our world becomes destabilized and everything changes.
0:13.8	These moments can feel disorienting, upsetting, but they can also allow us to see things in
0:21.3	new ways.
0:25.1	For the past year, all of us have had our own ground shaking moments.
0:30.6	What can we do all these months into the COVID-19 pandemic to reframe our challenges, to
0:37.7	use disruption as a source of reinvention?
0:44.2	Every August, we bring you a series called You 2.0.
0:49.5	It's about approaching the chaos of our lives with wisdom.
0:55.8	Over the next month, we look at how to cultivate more empathy in our intermigration.
1:01.2	So your spouse is late, your spouse does something inconsiderate, you have a lot of control
1:07.1	over how that behavior affects you.
1:09.5	How to reinterpret the past by understanding the nature of memory.
1:13.6	The question is, which reconstructed memories are more accurate, and can you learn to monitor
1:22.3	that process?
1:23.3	And I think people can.
1:25.7	And how to grow from our mistakes.
1:28.1	Regret is actually a very hopeful emotion.
1:30.9	It's something that is helping us learn from our mistakes and do better in the future.
1:39.4	Today we begin our series with a simple but essential ingredient in life that we all crave.
1:46.3	Purpose is an ancient concept.
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