On this episode, we chat about ideas from Chris’s new book, How to Calm Your Mind!
Topics covered include:
How a calm mind can make us significantly more productive;
How anxiety shrinks our cognitive performance;
What calm actually is;
How anxiety is a spectrum;
How presence is the key to productivity, and how to find it;
The “accomplishment mindset”;
The various drafts of How to Calm Your Mind;
How we need dopamine, and also how it can lead us astray;
Our brain’s “acquisition mentality”;
The three factors that influence the size of the dopamine hit we get from something;
What “superstimuli” are and how they highjack our attention on a chemical level;
How to balance time between the digital and analog worlds;
The various types of chronic stress;
The power science of “savoring” our lives.

Links mentioned in this episode:
Book: How to Calm Your Mind

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