Brain Hacking: The Truth About How to Change Your Brain

大脑黑客:如何改变你的大脑的真相

Good Life Project

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2015-05-26

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You can lose almost any part of your body, except one, and still be you. What is that one exception? Your brain. Because... The brain is the seat of your memory and your identity. Which is why brain injuries can be so devastating. And taking care of your brain is so incredibly important to a life well-lived. Question is, how do you do that? Turns out, there's a lot of "neuro-myths" floating around today. We love to spout all sorts of supposed facts about the brain. Things like, "the average person only uses 10% of their brain." Or, "you can completely rewire your brain through meditation." And, "exercise is like Miracle Grow for the brain." To find out what's fact and what is fantasy, I sat down with today's guest, Dr. Wendy Suzuki. Wendy is an award-winning neuroscientist and NYU professor. She runs an acclaimed research lab, teaches classes, and is the author of the new book, Happy Brain Happy Life. She is obsessed with how our brains either fuel or hold back our best lives. But as she explains in our conversation, her dogged quest to become a leading researcher and professor came with a cost. She gave up nearly every other part of her life. A few years back, she awakened to her reality and set in motion a series of radical changes in a renewed quest to reclaim her life. In this week's conversation, we explore her personal journey, do a bunch of myth-busting and discover how best to optimize our brains for life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • You know, who are we if we aren't a compilation of all the memories we have and all the experiences that we have.

  • And the only way we hold onto those experiences, our own personal experiences that are unique to us and only us, is through our memory.

  • This week's episode is sponsored by Camp GLP, that's short for Good Life project, and I'm really excited to share.

  • Also, we have been featured in USA Today, which is pretty awesome.

  • So what is it?

  • It is a pretty amazing three and a half day adult summer camp for entrepreneurs, makers, and world shakers.

  • A place where you can come let your hair down, drop the facade.

  • Just be you have an incredible time.

  • Meet people who see the world.

  • You see the world.

  • And simultaneously learn a ton about building cool things, about entrepreneurship, about making and leave absolutely lit up.

  • If this sounds cool to you, then check out more information@goodlifeproject.com camp.

  • Or just check the link in the show notes.

  • Thanks so much.

  • On to our show.

  • Imagine waking up one day and realizing that every professional dream that you had ever had, you'd achieved, but along the way, you'd essentially given up your entire life to get there.

  • Well, that's the reality that today's guest, Wendy Suzuki, faced when she woke up one day in the middle of her life realizing that she was an acclaimed, award winning neuroscientist, ran her own lab at NYU, but at the same time, everything else in her life had literally ceased to exist, she decided to make a profound change in the way that she leaned into life and the way that she explored everything outside of the laboratory.

  • In the process, not only did she change her life, but that informed a radical shift in the nature of the research she was doing in her laboratory.

  • The way that we've come to understand the brain and how it interacts with things like exercise and movement, that's the conversation we're exploring in today's episode.

  • I'm Jonathan Fields.