16 episodes
How Surprise Events Secretly Change Your Beliefs Michael Rousell
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-SURPRISECAST is a captivating journey into how your brain secretly changes your beliefs during moments of surprise.
-Using current neurological and cognitive research, Dr. Michael Rousell identifies and maps the consequences of surprise as a trigger for instant belief formation, one of the brain’s greatest survival tools.
-You’ll learn how to craft moments of surprise intentionally and strategically, to be the creator of richer lives.
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Episode 15, Meaning Making During a Surprise
In today’s episode I’ll describe the process of sense-making that goes on instantly during a moment of surprise.
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Episode 14, Agents of Influence
Learn why asking WHO is most powerful as an agent of influence is not necessarily the best question to ask. The question WHEN appears more enlightening.
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Episode 13, Much of What We Do is Driven By Unconscious Processes, Part 2
Learn how our brains are essentially prediction machines and their primary function is to reduce surprises by developing an increasingly nuanced model of the world.
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Episode 12, Unconscious Processing Makes Evolutionary Sense
Learn why much of what we do is driven by unconscious processes. Part 1.
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Episode 11, Beliefs About Ourselves are Self-Affirming
Learn how beliefs about the external world are easily verified, but beliefs about ourselves are self-affirming.
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Episode 10, Surprise Creates an Opportunity to Change the Experience of an Emotion
Learn how the experience of emotional arousal is adaptable. Heightened emotion is the brain telling us that something important is happening. On occasion, this allows us to label that emotion to create the experience.
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