Hidden Brain | 4 April 2022 | 0h 49m | Listen Later |
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Interview with resilience researcher Lucy Hone questioning the five stages of grief. Shares techniques to help cope with tragedy. Draws from her books What Abi Taught Us: A Mother’s Struggle to Come to Terms With Her Daughter’s Death and Resilient Grieving: Finding Strength and Embracing Life After a Loss that Changes Everything.
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Putting Our Assumptions to the Test
Hidden Brain | 7 March 2022 | 0h 52m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Abhijit Banerjee about his early life experiences and how they spurred him to take an experimental approach to development economics. Argues that we often have faulty mental models of the world, which we need to test. Economics should be proven with experiments rather than theory.
Useful Delusions
Hidden Brain | 5 April 2021 | 0h 49m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Shankar Vedantam about his book Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain. Discusses and how self-deceptions can bind together marriages, communities, and even entire nations.
The Easiest Person to Fool
Hidden Brain | 1 February 2021 | 0h 53m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Adam Grant about his book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. Describes the magic that unfolds when we challenge our own deeply-held beliefs – we too easily imagine we know more than we do.
A Conspiracy of Silence
Hidden Brain | 30 November 2020 | 0h 59m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Timur Kuran about ideas from his book Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification. Backgrounds preference falsification – where we pretend to believe the opposite of what we truly think. Offers a frame for understanding the behaviours of tyrants, and modern-day politics.
Bullshit Jobs
Hidden Brain | 3 September 2018 | 0h 45m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with David Graeber about the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and how these positions affect the people who hold them. Discusses the ideas in Bullshit Jobs: A Theory.
Buy, Borrow, Steal
Hidden Brain | 22 June 2020 | 0h 50m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Sufi Amir about ideas from his book House of Debt. Examines the role of debt as a hidden driver of recessions, and how we might create a more stable system. Argues against stimulus packages and low-interest rates intended to encourage borrowing to spend.
When Things Click
Hidden Brain | 4 February 2020 | 0h 50m | Listen Later | iTunes
Sets out the benefits of learning without external praise or criticism. Uses examples of clicker training with dolphins, dogs and humans to show that learning is fastest with value-less feedback that keeps the student focused internally on the process. Many implications for education and parenting.