#195 – Freedom, PTSD, war, and life through an evolutionary lens | Sebastian Junger
“If you experience that [equality of all people], you do not want to give it up. And that’s one of the things that soldiers experience in combat with each other in a platoon.” – Sebastian Junger
#191 – Revolutionizing our understanding of mental illness with optogenetics | Karl Deisseroth M.D., Ph.D.
“It turns out that behavioral states that mammals have, they can be cleanly broken apart into these features, and we could show that with optogenetics.” —Karl Deisseroth
#190 – Paul Conti, M.D.: How to heal from trauma and break the cycle of shame
“Trauma changes the instrument that we use to understand our trauma. It’s changing our brain.” —Paul Conti
#146 – Guy Winch, Ph.D.: Emotional first aid and how to treat psychological injuries
“We have a choice in the stories we tell ourselves. We don’t have choice about the facts, we have choice about our organization, our perspective, and the narrative we create around them.” —Guy Winch
#135 – BJ Miller, M.D.: How understanding death leads to a better life
“People die much more miserable than they need to because they haven’t dared to look at this thing called death before it’s too late.” —BJ Miller
#122 – Lori Gottlieb: Understanding pain, therapeutic breakthroughs, and keys to enduring emotional health
“Change happens gradually, then suddenly.” — Lori Gottlieb
#105 – Paul Conti, M.D.: The psychological toll of a pandemic, and the societal problems it has highlighted
“The virus isn’t plotting against us. It doesn’t have intelligence. It’s invisible. In order to unite, we have to recognize our shared humanity.” — Paul Conti
#101 – Ryan Holiday: Finding stillness amidst chaos
“One of the things that hobbies do . . . and a little bit of order and structure in our lives do, is they kind of just protect us from just reacting and reacting and reacting all the time.” — Ryan Holiday
#100 – Sam Harris, Ph.D.: COVID-19—Comprehending the crisis and managing our emotions
“This has been a period of time unlike any other in our lifetimes. . . there’s really no analogy.” — Sam Harris
#58 – AMA with sleep expert, Matthew Walker, Ph.D.: Strategies for sleeping more, sleeping better, and avoiding things that are disrupting sleep
“[Sleep] is like that master volume button on a mixing deck that you see in the studio. You can manipulate each one of those dials, or you can go to the far left and just move that one dial…and all of the other levers seem to move with it.” — Matthew Walker