Your Brain On... New Year’s Resolutions
The Brain Health Revolution Podcast
Dean and Ayesha Sherzai
4.8 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On New Year’s Eve, we experience feelings of joy, sadness, thankfulness, regret, and nostalgia, as our brains recall episodic moments from the past 12 months. Surges of dopamine mix with our aspirations, forming resolutions. As we count down to the new year, we’re full of excitement and hope.
But most of us don’t manage to stick to our new year’s resolutions beyond January.
In this episode of Your Brain On, we discuss the neuroscience and psychology of:
• Why new year’s resolutions so often fail
• How we can keep our new year’s resolutions, with science-backed techniques
• Whether new years are good starting points for forming new habits
We’re joined by Dr. Phillippa Lally, a Senior Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Surrey in the UK, and our friend Howard Jacobson, an expert in the mechanics of behavior change.
‘Your Brain On’ is a brand new podcast from hosts Ayesha and Dean Sherzai. We’re excited to preview this first episode here on Brain Health Revolution. We’ll share more about our new upcoming show soon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Health Revolution podcast, where your hosts, Aisha and Dean Shares I. |
| 0:05.8 | Almost five years ago, in the middle of 2019, we uploaded the first episode of the Brain Health |
| 0:11.2 | Revolution, a podcast about how our brains work and how to live a life that will ensure |
| 0:16.6 | they work better for longer. We're incredibly proud of what we've achieved. |
| 0:21.1 | Now we're excited to take the next big leap. |
| 0:23.5 | The human experience is overwhelmingly spectacular. |
| 0:26.9 | And the way our brains process at all is fascinating. |
| 0:30.8 | There are thousands of aspects of our lives that are enriched by neurological and psychological facts. |
| 0:36.8 | We had the idea of taking each of these elements of life and looking at them closely through |
| 0:41.7 | a neuroscientific lens. |
| 0:43.3 | With science-based stories, interviews, anecdotes, advice, and immersive sounds, we'll be |
| 0:48.7 | exploring how every facet of our reality, both good and bad, affects our minds from the broader picture |
| 0:55.5 | right down to the cellular intricacies. |
| 0:58.2 | We'll be introducing this idea as a brand new show, and we're ecstatic to be previewing |
| 1:03.9 | the first episode with you here on the Brain Health Revolution podcast today. |
| 1:07.8 | This new podcast, we're calling it Your Brain on. There'll be your brain on sugar, |
| 1:14.8 | your brain on sports, your brain on dreams, your brain on love. And we'll be sharing stories |
| 1:21.6 | from some unexpected places, the extremes of human existence and the dark, strange corners of our history and our |
| 1:30.0 | future. We're starting with an episode about something fairly recent. We all go through it at |
| 1:35.5 | least once per year to welcome you to our new show about the neuroscience of everything. |
| 1:41.0 | This is Your Brain on New Year's. Welcome to Your Brain on, a podcast about the |
| 1:48.3 | neuroscience of everything. We're your hosts, doctors Aisha and Dean Sherzai, and we're excited |
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