On Wisdom
What does science tell us about wisdom?
We found 2 episodes of On Wisdom with the tag “motivation”.
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54: Emotions Are Not What You Think (with Lisa Feldman Barrett )
May 30th, 2023 | 49 mins 4 secs
affect, allostasis, anthropology, cognition, complex signal ensembles, computer science, context, developmental biology, emotions, engineering, evolutionary biology, happiness, history of science, how emotions are made, inside out movie, linguistics, lisa feldman barrett, meaning, motivation, neuroscience, philosophy, philosophy of science, physiology, predictions, psychology, purpose, reasoning, relational meaning, social science, theory of constructed emotion, well being, wisdom
What actually are “emotions” and how are they made? Lisa Feldman Barrett joins Igor and Charles to discuss what we’ve got right and what we’ve got completely wrong about the nature of our emotional lives. Igor grapples with the idea that red apples aren’t necessarily red, Lisa shares that anger doesn’t always look like anger, and Charles learns that a racing heartbeat can be interpreted in fundamentally different ways. Welcome to Episode 54.
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28: Pandemic Happiness (with Sonja Lyubomirsky)
April 23rd, 2020 | 31 mins 55 secs
9-11, barbara fredrickson, coronavirus, counting blessings, covid-19, culture, depression, ed diener, effort, emotions, eudaimonic happiness, face-to-face connection, global pandemic, gratitude, happiness, happiness intervention dosage, happiness intervention fit, hedonic happiness, immunity, indebtedness, life satisfaction, lockdown, meaning, mother teresa, motivation, optimism, personal connection, philanthropy, philosophy, positive emotions, psychology, purpose, reasoning, resilience, social science, sonja lyubomirsky, south korea, well being, wisdom
Is happiness research even relevant in such times of crisis, or is focusing on our happiness simply a luxury we can no longer afford? And, while effective for many people, why does the cultivation of gratitude sometimes result in unexpectedly negative consequences? Sonja Lyubomirsky joins Igor and Charles to discuss the key components of happiness, lessons from 9-11, ‘happiness-intervention fit’, Mother Teresa’s dark side, and the unexpected psychological impact of the global pandemic to date. Igor reflects on life-under-lockdown vs life in the downfall of the Soviet Union, Sonja discusses the subtle art of balancing optimism with positive action, and Charles learns that when it comes to counting one’s blessings, it pays not to count too high.