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Back2DifferentMelissa Hughes - That Three Pound Wrinkly Mass Between Your EarsWhat a combo of insight and humility is Melissa. I know, that sounds like the first line of a sonnet - she and I tend toward the childlike and the fun. In our time with microphones, we explore -The Rat TicklerWhat's my Cat Hair?Math tests and egg timers"I don't just hire people who are smarter than me, I listen to them."Glial cells - the day shift and the night shiftCortisol overproduction and brain cell erosion - and then we get down to some serious st...2023-05-2854 min
Back2DifferentMelissa Hughes - Neuroscience, my guilty pleasureMelissa is a delight. We've shared many conversations, always building on each other's ideas and energy. She brings an analytical approach to experience that fills in the gaps my loosely and widely ranging curiosity sometimes skips past. So we spend about an hour exploring how the brain works (or not), how much we overestimate our (illusion of) rationality, why facts don't matter in most conversations, how we can be self-skeptical and let go of shame, punching back, and much, much more. Mixing this podcast made me go back and listen to portions again and again. You can...2022-07-1256 min