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Season 2 Ep 5 – Resilience, Stability and Hyper-Coherent Networks
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The formation of self-identity and group identity through the lens of hyper-coherent networks, key features of what makes a system resilient. (remember – your brain, your relationships and human society are all systems).
To help systems become more flexible and innovative, we need to understand the mechanisms of change.
A mindset or paradigm shift is one of those mechanisms.
A level higher than that: being able to rise above paradigms altogether*.
This is what can free our mind to experiment with perspectives that are guided by our values – rather than only confirming a narrow field of vision based on our past, which is largely driven by our tribal identity.
The science of why mindset changes behavior
A mindset shift is a visceral, sensorimotor experience. What does ‘visceral’ mean? Viscera refers to the soft internal organs of the body, including the lungs, the heart, and the organs of the digestive, excretory, reproductive, and circulatory systems. …
The dark side of resilience and why we need to talk about trauma
Being trauma-informed is an act of science-based compassion. When we understand the neurobiological impacts of trauma, violence and what I call ‘sociobiological insults’ to our psychological safety – we naturally become more understanding of human pain. We need to discover…
This is why I chose to study neuroscience
“We don’t passively forget that something is scary. We must actively learn that it isn’t anymore.” – Stanford Neurology professor, Dr. Robert Sapolsky The day a young man I had been counseling told me that, for the first time…
Bounded rationality and fine-tuning our preferences
As humans, we make ‘reasonable’ decisions based on the information we have. But we don’t have perfect or complete information. Nobel-prize winning economist Herbert Simon calls this Bounded Rationality. And even the information we do have is filtered through our experience-dependent predictions and…