Here are some illustrated podnotes to go with the Modern Wisdom Podcast - Beau Lotto - The Neuroscience of Awe, Distraction, And Anxiety.
Beau Lotto is is a professor of Neuroscience at the University of London and an author.
Beau is the founder of the Lab Of Misfits which he describes as "lunatic fringe neuroscience". He's created nightclubs in his lab where every action people take is measured, he's locked people in dark rooms and waited to see what happens and he's got actors to have a fit on the floor to observe how people respond.
If someone gives you data and information to show that you’re wrong, there’s a good chance you will hold to your view stronger than before.
Awe is amazing…you don’t really get it, and you have to shift your view..
The only way to learn is to move.
Life is movement.
If you don’t move you die. O
