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It’s Me. Your Brain. is a neuroscience and psychology podcast about decision-making, stress, mental health, brain health, and thinking clearly in a fast-paced, AI-driven world.
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The Confidence Paradox (opens the original)
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Why the people who know the least often sound the surest - and what that costs you as a leader Picture a meeting. Someone speaks with total certainty, no hedging, no "I think," just a flat statement delivered like fact. In that same room, someone else (usually the person who's actually spent years on this exact subject) speaks far more carefully. "It depends." A pause before answering something that looks simple. Most rooms trust the confident one. In the moment, certainty reads as competence. B
What Grit Actually Does to Your Brain - Guest Episode with Dev Aditya (opens the original)
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600 investor calls. 600 no's. At some point in that stretch, most people would take any money, on any terms, just to make the calls stop. Dev didn't. He turned down a term sheet because it would have built the wrong thing, when the wrong money was the only money on offer. Dev Aditya co-founded an AI teacher that ran offline in refugee camps eighteen months before ChatGPT existed, and had to explain what that even meant to people who didn't believe him. He's since built a company operating across
The Reset You Actually Get: Why September Works on Your Brain - If You Use It Right (opens the original)
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You've just sat back down at your desk. The inbox looks impossible, the calendar's already filling up, and underneath it, a quiet thought: I should be more motivated than this. That story isn't just wrong, it's costing you the exact week your brain is actually on your side. In this episode, Virginia Palm breaks down what's really happening in your brain during the return from a break: why this specific week gives you a real, documented boost in motivation, why that boost quietly expires if you d
Do you listen to your body, or does it have to shout? - Guest Episode with Barnabás Boross (opens the original)
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Every time your body sends a signal and you push through anyway - stay later, skip the walk, override the tiredness - you're making a quiet decision about which of you is in charge. Most people only notice that relationship when it breaks down. This episode is about what it looks like to build it deliberately, before the breakdown. Barnabás has been moving every single day for thirty years. Not to stay fit, and not through willpower, through something closer to identity. Built from a coach's rul
Your Brain on Heat: What This Summer Is Actually Doing to Your Thinking (opens the original)
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You've read the same email three times. The decision that should take two minutes is still sitting there at four in the afternoon. And underneath it, a quiet thought: I'm just being lazy today. That story isn't just wrong, it's making the week harder. In this episode, Virginia Palm breaks down four specific things heat does to a working brain: why it makes complex thinking so much harder while leaving routine tasks untouched, why you're often already dehydrated before you feel thirsty, why a fog
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