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164: Psychological Balance with Dr. Mireille Reece
01:14 - Mireille’s Superpower: Being just herself. The sense of respect around the individuality of every person.
02:30 - Being Different From Others is a Good Thing
- Nature vs. Nurture
- Epigenetics
05:59 - Our Brains and Empathy
- Mirror Neurons
- Dr. Dan Siegel
- The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon/Frequency Illusion
11:15 - The Brain vs. The Mind
- Extended Cognition
- Sensation and Perception
- Survival Rules - Virginia Satir
19:22 - Three Brains in One
21:51 - HPA Axis
23:06 - Overcoming Unconscious Impulses
- Fight or Flight
- Collateral Data
- Brené Brown
- Grounding
26:56 - Affective Prosody
- Gavin de Becker - The Gift of Fear
- Incongruence
33:26 - Balancing Transparency at Work
- Humanity in Tech
- Codeswitching
- Arianna Huffington
- Relationships at Work
- Psychological Safety
- Shame
- Learned Helplessness
48:41 - Effort Over Outcome
56:15 - Using the Word “While”
59:25 - Decoding Your Anger
- Using Energy
01:05:28 - “Plays” or Neural Routes
01:09:20 - Correlation vs. Causation
Reflections:
Rein: Bringing our whole self to work without thinking about punishment or reprisal. Finding psychological safety.
Jacob: How he thinks one of the biggest problems in the tech industry is that there is this brick wall around feelings and how feelings and work don’t mix. Rather than a brick wall, what kind of filter can we put in front of our emotional lives that is appropriate for the professional world?
Mireille: It really is around being able to see other people as people and when we do that most of the time people are not trying to make our lives more difficult.
Check out Mireille’s podcast Brain Science here.
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Special Guest: Dr. Mireille Reece.